In Germany, again and again – and by whom even! – The demand that a single institution, spread across the whole of Germany and, if possible, operating globally, should replace the current banking landscape with its three pillars. – Behind this is the endlessly disproven statement that sheer size only brings advantages in the financial business. It is undisputed that a gigabank in Germany would result in less competition and thus higher prices for financial services. – See unwindability, alliances, cross-border, bank size, optimal, bank size, bank-bust-because-small thesis, assertion strategy, contestability, downsizing, three-block, three-pillar model, financial conglomerate, Gibrat rule, big bank bonus, size effects, G-Sifi, group discount, consolidation, margin pressure, megamania, multi-boutique approach, Octopus, Penrose theorem, rush to exit, subsidiarity principle, too big to fail principle.
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