Systemic relations between banks and other financial intermediaries, in particular hedge funds
Profitability of banks and national banking systems
European financial market integration
Selected Publications and Working Papers
Beckmann, R., Profitability of Western European banking systems: panel evidence on structural and cyclical determinants, Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper Series 2, No. 17/07, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt 2007.
Beckmann, R., Born, J., Kösters, W., EMU Financial
Market Integration and Economic Competitiveness, in: Welteke, Schröder,
Hofer (eds.), "Perspektiven der Märkte für Finanzdienstleistungen",
Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Diethard B. Simmert, Deutscher Sparkassen Verlag,
Stuttgart 2004.
Beckmann, R., Eppendorfer C., Neimke, M., Deepening European Financial Integration
- Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evaluation of Growth and Employment
Benefits, in: Cecchini et al. (eds.), "The Incomplete European Market
for Financial Services", S. 187-229, ZEW Economic Studies 19, Heidelberg
2003.
Beckmann, R., Eppendorfer C., Neimke, M., Market Access Strategies in
the EU Banking Sector - Obstacles and Benefits towards an Integrated European
Retail
Market, in: Cecchini et al. (eds.), "The Incomplete European Market
for Financial Services", S. 65-87, ZEW Economic Studies 19, Heidelberg
2003.
Beckmann, R., Eppendorfer C., Neimke, M., Financial Integration within
the European Union: Towards a Single Market for Insurance, in: Cecchini et al.
(eds.), "The Incomplete European Market for Financial Services",
S. 1-29, ZEW Economic Studies 19, Heidelberg 2003.
Beckmann, R., Born, J., Kösters, W., The US dollar,
the euro, and the yen: An evaluation of their present and future status
as international currencies,
in: Klenner, Watanabe (eds.): “Globalization and Regional Dynamics
- East Asia and the European Union from the Japanese and the German Perspective”,
S. 51-80, Berlin 2002.
Beckmann, R., Eppendorfer C., Kösters, W., Neimke,
M., A Single European Market for Financial Services: Integration Trends
and Growth Effects, in: Lang,
F.-P./ Ohr, R. (eds.): "Integration, Währung und Wachstum - Dimensionen
internationaler Wirtschaftsbeziehungen", Festschrift für Dieter
Bender, S. 11-46, Berlin 2002.
Beckmann, R., Hebler, M., Kösters, W., Elemente der ökonomischen Integrationstheorie, in: Loth, W.,Wessels, W. (eds.), „Theorien europäischer Integration“, S. 35-86, Opladen 2001.