This paper empirically examines the role of soft information in the competitive interaction between relationship and transaction banks. Soft information can be interpreted as a valuable signal about the quality of a firm ...

We investigate the role of competition on the outcome of Austrian Treasury auctions. Austria's EU accession led to an increase in the number of banks participating in treasury auctions. We use structural estimates of ...

We derive three testable predictions from a bank-P2P lender model of competition: (i) P2P lending grows when some banks are faced with exogenously higher regulatory costs, (ii) P2P loans are riskier than bank loans; and ...

We uncover a new channel for spillovers of funding dry-ups. The 2016 US money market fund (MMF) reform exogenously reduced unsecured MMF funding for some banks. We use novel data to trace those banks to a platform for ...

Bloomberg offers a wide range of data on the world's leading public and private companies. Bloomberg database components includes: Stock price data, CDS and bond data, calculated ratios, financial accounts information; ...

The Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband (German Savings Banks Association, DSGV) is the umbrella organisation of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe.

The Austrian Treasury is the debt management office of the Republic of Austria and acts in the name and for the account of the sovereign. Its responsibilities include issuing Austrian government debt and managing the federal ...

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation that works to build better policies for better lives. Our goal is to shape policies that foster prosperity, equality, ...

The largest and oldest P2P lending platform for consumer credit in Germany

The Federal Statistical Office is the institution to contact first for official data on the society, the economy, the environment and the state. We provide objective statistics that have been compiled in a neutral and ...