Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/17810 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 948
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
foreign activities of commercial banks
Germany
panel cointegration
JEL: 
F21
F23
G21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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