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Why Do Banks Go Abroad? - Evidence from German Data

This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign activities of German banks. We use regionally disaggregated panel data for the years 1981?98 and distinguish foreign direct investment from total foreign assets of domestic banks, of their foreign branches and their subsidiaries. Foreign activities are found to be positively related to demand conditions on the local market, foreign activities of German firms, and the presence of financial centers. This supports the hypothesis that German banks follow their customers abroad. Exchange rate volatility has some negative impact. EU membership and the abolition of capital controls seem to have exerted a greater influence on foreign assets than on FDI of German banks, thus weakly supporting the hypothesis that the two are substitutes.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 948

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
International Investment; Long-term Capital Movements
Multinational Firms; International Business
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Thema
foreign activities of commercial banks
Germany
panel cointegration
Bank
Multinationales Unternehmen
Direktinvestition
Deutschland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Buch, Claudia M.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW)
(wo)
Kiel
(wann)
1999

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Buch, Claudia M.
  • Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW)

Entstanden

  • 1999

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