1. Refereed Journal // 2016

    Microfinance banks and financial inclusion

    We examine how the geographical proximity to a microfinance bank affects financial inclusion. We study the expansion of the branch network of ProCredit banks in South-East Europe between 2006 and 2010. We report…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2016

    Credit rationing in small-firm bank relationships

    I study credit rationing in small firm-bank relationships by using a unique data set of matched loan applications and contracts. I establish the degree of credit rationing by relating a firm’s requested loan…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2016

    The risk of financial crises: Is there a role for income inequality?

    Could macroeconomic factors such as income inequality be the real root cause of financial crises? We explore a broad variety of financial and macroeconomic variables and employ a general-to-specific model…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2016

    Private Hochwasservorsorge und Elementarschadenversicherung: Moral Hazard, der Effekt von Informationskampagnen, und eine Versicherungsillusion

    In light of increasing flood damage, private flood mitigation gains more relevance. We inves-tigate empirically whether the uptake of private flood mitigation measures in Germany is af-fected by (a) the…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2016

    Complementarities in the Search for Innovation: Managing Markets and Relationships

    Extant research has characterized a firm’s search for external knowledge in its innovation activities as either relational or transactional in nature. The former implies that a firm chooses and develops…