Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 986:
Domestic and Foreign Banks in Germany: Do They Differ?
Claudia M. Buch and Stefan M. Golder
Abstract: The German banking market is notorious for its low degree
of market penetration by foreign financial institutions, suggesting that
markets serviced by domestic and foreign banks are segmented. This paper
employs a number of tests to determine whether activities of domestic and
foreign banks are related. Using data for the years 1986-1999, we fail to
find evidence for similarities in the activities of domestic and foreign
banks. This holds across the two types of domestic banks (large and savings
banks) and across four different activities (loans and deposits of banks
and non-banks) considered.
34 pages, May 2000
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