Dezentrale versus zentrale Bankensysteme?: Geographische Marktorientierung und Ort der Entscheidungsfindung als Dimensionen zur Unterteilung von Bankensystemen

Gärtner Stefan and Flögel Franz
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Gärtner Stefan: Gelsenkirchen
Flögel Franz: Gelsenkirchen

ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 2013, vol. 57, issue 1-2, 105-121

Abstract: Decentralized versus centralized banking systems? Geographic market orientation and the location of decision-making as characteristics for a classification of banking systems. In the light of global financial integration many authors expect a homogenization of financial systems and thus the well-established classification in bank and capital market-based systems is questioned. We conceptualised an alternative classification in decentralized and centralized banking and apply this classification to the German banking system. Banking groups differ clearly in terms of their spatial distribution of employees, which we use as an approximate indicator for geographic market orientation. It was also observed that decentralized banks increased their share in the credit market at the expense of centralized banks and granted the majority of corporate loans. Compared internationally the German banking system is presumably very decentralized, however more research is needed to assess the state and influence of banking systems’ spatial organisation on a cross country base.

Keywords: banking systems; varieties of capitalism; decentralization vs. centralization; geographic market orientation; location of decision-making; banking markets in Germany; banking systems; varieties of capitalism; decentralization vs. centralization; geographic market orientation; location of decision-making; banking markets in Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1515/zfw.2013.0009

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