In Thailand, the government has long recognized the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the economy and has given a large amount of financial support to this sector. Still, SMEs are not able to catch up with larger enterprises and the constraints to SME financing remain...

We study the incentive effects of grating supervisors access to objective performance information when agents work on multiple tasks. We first analyze a formal model showing that incentives are lower powered when supervisors have no access to objective measures but assess performance...

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of customer care on the profitability of service firms in the Banking Sector in Ghana.Design/Methodology: The study adopted a mixed method approach to establish whether or not customer care program has had any impact on the...

As business players, entrepreneurs certainly need bank products and supports that provide fast and easy services with wide-spread network in Indonesia. RFM is a segmentation method based on past data and create an index on a client where the high loyalty and assume the behaviour of customers in...

This paper examines macroeconomic impact on the profitability of Georgian banking sector during 2003-2017 years. The bank profitability variable is Return on Assets and as for macroeconomic variables they include gross domestic product, inflation, unemployment, foreign direct investment and...

Bank capital requirements are based on a mix of market values and book values. We investigate the effects of a policy change that ties regulatory capital to the market value of the "available-for-sale" investment securities portfolio for some banking organizations. Our analysis is based on...

This paper contributes to the current literature dealing with the drivers of bank business model changes by analyzing the relationship between fee and commission income share and banks' performance in terms of profitability, risk and risk-adjusted profitability in the European Union. We apply...

We investigate the structural dependencies in the bank-firm credit market of Spain under a multilayer network perspective. In particular, the original bipartite network is decomposed into different layers representing different industrial sectors. We then study the correlations between layers...

The unique capital structure of commercial banking - funding production with demandable debt that participates in the economy's payments system - affects various aspects of banking. It shapes commercial banks' comparative advantage in providing financial products and services to informationally...

We study the incentive effects of grating supervisors access to objective performance information when agents work on multiple tasks. We first analyze a formal model showing that incentives are lower powered when supervisors have no access to objective measures but assess performance...

Reforms of financial regulation after the crisis of 2007-2009 raise the question of what is the relation between financial regulators and competition authorities. Should competition authorities play a role in financial regulation? Should they co-operate with financial regulators? Or should they...

Diese Open Access Buch geht den Fragen nach, wie inklusives Wachstum und wirtschaftliche Sicherheit entstehen, welche Rahmenbedingungen der Staat setzen und welche Reformen er auf den Weg bringen muss und wie sich wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen auswirken. Die besten Studierenden der...

Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse als externe Wachstumsstrategien treten immer wieder wellenförmig in Erscheinung. Der Untersuchung der letzten bedeutenden Fusionswelle, die Mitte der 1990er Jahre begann und bis zum Jahrtausendwechsel anhielt, widmet sich diese Arbeit. Einen Schwerpunkt bildet...

Die Finanzmarktkrise der Jahre 2007 hat gezeigt, dass Vertrauen im Finanzsektor von existenzieller Bedeutung ist und mangelndes Vertrauen seitens der Kunden dem Bankenapparat nachhaltig schaden kann. Vor diesem Hintergrund liefert das Buch eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Analyse des...

Luftverkehr und Banken gehören in den USA zu jenen Bereichen, die vor der Weltwirtschaftskrise durch intensiven Wettbewerb gekennzeichnet waren. Sie wurden in den 30er Jahren in ein engmaschiges Regulierungsnetz eingebunden, das als Substitut für den wettbewerblichen Koordinierungsmechanismus...

In Hotelling's fundamental model (1929), the geographical distance and high transportation costs grant firms present in a market a certain power over local buyers in their neighborhoods. Starting from his model, this study shows that in the competition between a bank and a microfinance...

Die Ankündigung von US-Präsident Donald Trump, die Bankenregulierung ändern zu wollen, lässt die meisten Experten befürchten, dass er die Regeln für die Banken erheblich lockern wird. Ein weiterer Impuls für Deregulierungen könnte von dem Brexit ausgehen. Welche Risiken hätte ein...

Andreas Dombret, Deutsche Bundesbank, stellt die Ergebnisse einer Umfrage zur Ertragslage und Widerstandsfähigkeit deutscher Kreditinstitute, die von der Deutschen Bundesbank und der Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht durchgeführt wurde, vor: Es zeigt sich, dass die Institute...

Little is known about how banks shift profits to low-tax countries. Because of their specific business model, banks use profit shifting channels different from those of other firms. We propose a novel and bank-specific method of profit shifting: the strategic relocation of proprietary trading to...

Effective market discipline incentivizes financial institutions to limit their risk-taking behavior, making it a key element for financial regulation. However, without adequate incentives to monitor and control the risk-taking behavior of financial institutions market discipline erodes. As a...

We present a model in which banks and other financial intermediaries face both occasionally binding borrowing constraints, and costs of equity issuance. Near the steady state, these intermediaries can raise equity finance at no cost through retained earnings. However, even moderately large...

We show that illiquid assets such as bank loans are used by euro area banks both as central bank collateral for short-term liquidity insurance purposes and for longer-term funding purposes for issuing covered bonds or asset-backed securities. We then explore the determinants of the choice of...

In June 2014 the ECB became the first major central bank to lower one of its key policy rates to negative territory. The theoretical and empirical literature is silent on whether banks’ reaction would be different when the policy rate is lowered to negative levels compared to a standard...

Financial institutions are key to allocate capital to its most productive uses. In order to examine the relationship between productivity and bank credit in the context of different financial market set-ups, we introduce a model of overlapping generations of entrepreneurs under complete and...