Weiss steht im Kontrast zu Schwarz. So weist eine Logik des weissen Geldes auf eine Abkehr vom schwarzen Geld hin. Der Kontrast von Weiss und Schwarz stellt dar, wie radikal der Wandel im Schweizer Bankensektor der letzten Jahre ist, und symbolisiert, dass auf dem Schweizer Bankenplatz nur noch...

Im Rahmen der Konjunkturumfrage wurden im Juni 2017 die Unternehmen nach ihren Erfahrungen mit Negativzinsen gefragt. Die Auswertung der Sonderfrage zeigt, dass jedes fünfte Unternehmen von einer Bank mit Negativ­zinsen auf Einlagen konfrontiert wurde. Mittlere und große Unternehmen waren...

This study is an exploratory analysis of the economic role of banks under different prudential frameworks. It considers an agent-based computational model populated by consumers, firms, banks, and a central bank whose out-of-equilibrium interactions replicate the conjunct dynamics of a banking...

Better customer service provisions by banks - such as more branches and ATMs, longer business hours, and more personalized services - help attract more core deposits and increase funding stickiness by raising depositors' switching costs and enhancing their loyalty. Funding stickiness from...

This study constitutes an exploratory analysis of the economic role of banks under different prudential frameworks. It considers an agent-based computational model populated by consumers, firms, banks and a central bank whose out-of-equilibrium interactions replicate the conjunct dynamics of a...

As our economy evolves, private equity groups, hedge funds, and investment banks compete and cooperate in different ways. Their recent innovations are reported and analyzed by the 3rd edition of David Stowell's landmark book, which adds three new cases, significantly revisions of most chapters,...

This book examines how credit and finance schemes affect the financial lives of vulnerable people around the world. These schemes include payday lending, matched savings, and financial literacy in the Global North, and micro-credit and mobile banking in the Global South. Buckland sets these...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I Informal, Non-institutional and Professional Credit in Preindustrial Europe -- Chapter 2: The Rise of London as a Financial Capital in Late Medieval England -- Chapter 3: When Things Go Wrong: Credit, Defaults and Institutions in Early Modern Venice -- Chapter...

This book aims to provide scholars, students and practitioners with a broad analysis - both theoretical and practical - of what it means to be a sustainable bank. It provides a comprehensive overview of sustainable banking literature and practices, discussing environmental and social pressures....

This book presents an overview of corporate governance and risk management, analyzing their interdependence and particularly their relevance in banking. It discusses current trends in corporate governance, such as stakeholder management, financial performance and the cost of equity, compensation...

The present SUERF Study includes a selection of papers based on the authors’ contributions to the Vienna conference, jointly organized by SUERF, the OeNB and the Austrian Society for Bank Research. In reply to the financial crisis, the Great Recession and sovereign debt crisis, many central...