Report on assessing competitiveness of the German banking system (2003-2008)

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Economics - Finance, University of Portsmouth, language: English, abstract: This paper uses t and f statistical tests to evaluate empirically the competitive conditions in the German banking system for the period 2003-2007. For this purpose we implement the non-structural estimation technique in logarithmic form (Hondroyiannis, Lolos, Papapetrou, 1999, p.377):lnTrev = α1+α2 lnPL+α3 lnPK+α4 lnPF+α5 lnRISKASS+α6 lnASSET+α7 lnEMP