Description
This book provides a compendium to recent work in empirical banking. It follows the structure in “The Microeconomics of Banking” by Xavier Freixas and Jean Charles Rochet in arranging the relevant methodologies, applications and results to achieve a coherent synthesis between available theory and supporting empirics. Hans Degryse is professor of financial intermediation and markets at CentER – Tilburg University in the Netherlands and a CESIfo research fellow. He holds the TILEC-AFM Chair on Financial Market Regulation. His research interests include empirical and theoretical banking, market microstructure, and financial systems. Moshe Kim is professor of economics, University of Haifa, Israel and currently at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Spain. He is founder and co-director of the Barcelona Banking Summer School (BBSS) at the Barcelona Graduate School. His research interests include firm-bank relationships, imperfect banking competition, and financial systems. Steven Ongena is professor in empirical banking at CentER – Tilburg University in the Netherlands and a CEPR research fellow in financial economics. He is a member of TILEC, a NAKE and CFS fellow, a steering committee member of the ECB-CFS Research Network, and an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Services Research. His research interests include firm-bank relationships, bank mergers and acquisitions, and financial systems.
