Brown Bag Seminare

Dr. Andrea Binder, FU Berlin

Datum:                                02.02.2026

Vortragsthema:                 Exit through the giftshop: the size and structure of offshore banking 

Abstract:
Offshore banking enables money creation outside of national regulation, it thus allows privileged private actors to circumvent public rules, and underpins other offshore financial services such as tax planning or sanctions evasion. How significant is this phenomenon? This article provides the first comprehensive estimate of the size and structure of offshore banking. Drawing on economic history and interviews with market participants, we conceptualize the offshore banking system as comprising loans, bonds, and foreign exchange derivatives. Using Bank for International Settlements (BIS) data, we estimate that in the first quarter of 2025, the core of the offshore banking system (loans and bonds) amounted to tn and the periphery (offshore derivatives) to another .8tn, exceeding the volume of regulated cross-border U.S. dollar instruments. The paper demonstrates that offshore banking thrives, despite Western governments’ efforts to regulate it in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. The persistent success of offshore banking is, however, not driven by the rise of non-Western markets, as has been previously argued. Both on the demand and the supply side of offshore banking services, Europe remains central. Overall, offshore banking stands at .8tn in 2025, constituting the majority of all dollar-denominated cross-border financial flows. When it comes to international finance, the erosion of the rules-based liberal order is being driven from within.

Prof. Dr. Maria Waldinger, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Datum:                                30.04.2025

Vortragsthema:                 Impacts of climate change and environmental pollution

Dr. Florian Habermann, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Datum:                                07.05.2025

Vortragsthema:                 Double Materiality as a Driver of Real Effects: Evidence from the European Union’s Non-Financial 
                                             Disclosure Directive

Prof. Dr. Victoria-Sophie Osburg, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Datum:                                04.06.2025

Vortragsthema:                 Can Medical AI Services Convince the Self-Wise? How Perceived Accuracy and Diagnosis Severity 
                                             Influence Treatment Compliance

Prof. Dr. Matthias Pelster, University Duisburg-Essen

Datum:                                09.07.2025

Vortragsthema:                 Ranking concerns or reference points: The impact of communicating expected payoffs in experimental studies

Prof. Dr. Alexander Bleier, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

Datum:                27.11.2024

Vortragsthema: Control and Privacy: Evidence from Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT)

Prof. Dr. Jörg Clausen

Datum:                05.02.2025

Vortragsthema: Commuting costs and housing prices

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Marjolein Buisman, WHU Otto-Beisheim School of Management

Datum: 15.05.2024

Vortragsthema: Towards sustainable (re-) distribution of food, optimizing grocery retailing and food bank practices

Jun.-Prof. Dr. David Streich, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Datum: 05.06.2024

Vortragsthema: Does statutory incidence matter? Evidence from the German market for real estate agents

Ass.-Prof. Harald Amberger, PhD, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

Datum: 19.06.2024 

Vortragsthema: What Happens with a Zero Corporate Income Tax? Evidence from a Corporate Payout Tax System

Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf, Technische Universität Dresden

Datum: 26.06.2024

Vortragsthema: The Perks and Perils of Machine Learning in Business Research

Prof. Dr. Robin-Christopher Ruhnau, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Datum: 29.11.2023

Vortragsthema: Marketing in Financial Market Communication

Prof. Dr. Maximilian Todtenhaupt, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Datum: 17.01.2024

Vortragsthema: Are Domestic Workers Affected by Foreign Tax Changes?

Dr. Maximilian Frieß, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Datum: 31.01.2024

Vortragsthema: Failure Imprinting: On the Long-term Consequences of Severe Failures on Decision-Makers’ Aspiration and Performance

Prof. Dr. Florian Weigert, University of Neuchatel

Datum: 14.02.2024

Vortragsthema: Hedge Funds and the Positive Idiosyncratic Volatility Effect

Tobias Otterbring, University of Agder

Datum: 16.11.2022

Vortragsthema: "Shapes, Stature, and Social Influence: Three Projects on Persuasive Phenomena in the Marketplace"

Christina Pfeuffer, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Datum: 07.12.2022   

Vortragsthema: “Eye Movements as a Window to Cognition - How to Draw Inferences about Learning and Expectations from Eye Movements“

Stefan Bauernschuster, Universität Passau

Datum: 01.02.2023

Vortragsthema: "The Impact of Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control Clinics on Early 20th Century U.S. Fertility and Mortality"

Barbara Biasi, Yale School of Management

Datum: 04.05.2022 (virtuell)

Vortragsthema: The Education-Innovation Gap

Christian Mandl, TH Deggendorf

Datum: 18.05.2022 (in Präsenz)

Vortragsthema: Prescriptive Analytics for Commodity Storage Applications

Amin Nazifi, Birmingham Business School

Datum: 06.07.2022 (virtuell)

Vortragsthema: Spin it to win it! The Effectiveness of Gamification in Service Recovery

Yaron Lahav, Ben Gurion University

Datum: 20.07.2022 (in Präsenz)

Vortragsthema: Bubbles in Asset Markets and the Heterogeneity of Beliefs

J.-Prof. Dr. Nicola Bilstein, Universität Bielefeld

Datum: 11.11.2020

Vortragsthema: To Tell or Not to Tell: The Effect of Informing Consumers about the Cooperation with a Startup in Developing Smart Products.

Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm, Universität Passau

Datum: 02.12.2020

Vortragsthema: Can training enhance adoption, knowledge and perception of organic farming practices? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Indonesia.

Prof. Dr. Martin Jacob, WHU

Datum: 13.01.2021
Vortragsthema: The Role of Personal Income Taxes in Corporate Investment Decisions
Paper

Prof. Dr. Thomas Mählmann

Datum: 27.01.2021
Uhrzeit: 12:15 bis 13:45 Uhr
Vortragsthema: COVID-19 and the Fragility of Credit Supply by Shadow Banks
Link zur Zoom-Veranstaltung (Meeting-ID: 932 1936 5015; PW: 650482)
Präsentation: Lending vs. Trading Theory

Prof. Dr. Anil Arya, Ohio State University

Datum: entfällt.

Vortragsthema: Aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie muss der Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Arya leider entfallen.

J.-Prof. Dr. Nicola Bilstein, Universität Bielefeld

Datum: entfällt.

Vortragsthema: Aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie muss der Vortrag von J.-Prof. Dr. Bilstein leider entfallen.

Prof. Dr. Martin Jacob, WHU

Datum: entfällt

Vortragsthema: Aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie muss der Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Jacob leider entfallen.

Prof. Luca Opromolla, Banco de Portugal

Datum: 23.10.2019

Vortragsthema: Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU (pdf)

Prof. Dr. David Stewart, Loyola Marymount University

Datum: 13.11.2019

Vortragsthema: Short- and Long-Term Effects of Advertising on Brand Equity: Does Major Event Advertising Build Brands?

Prof. Dr. Marco Steinhauser, KU

Datum: 08.01.2020

Vortragsthema: To err is human: Conscious and preconscious error processing in the human brain

Prof. Dr. Pirmin Fontaine, KU / WFI

Datum: 22.01.2020

Vortragsthema: Cargo bicycles for sustainable urban logistics: Planning problems and an efficient metaheuristic for routing

Prof. Dr. Kai Sandner, WFI

Datum: 29.05.2019

Vortragsthema: Why do not all firms engage in tax avoidance

Prof. Dr. Shashi Matta, WFI

Datum: 12.06.2019

Vortragsthma: Parental Choice of Healthy Food for Children at Fast Food Restaurants: Investigating Social Comparison, Implicit Self-Theories, and Social Norms in Six Field Studies.

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Brüggen, Maastricht University

Datum: 26.06.2019

Vortragsthema:Using Investment and Assurance Frames to Encourage Retirement Information Search, Achtung Raumänderung: NB 201

Prof. Dr. Nicole DeHoratius, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Datum: 03.07.2019

Vortragsthema: Delivery Service Value in Attendant Home Delivery

Albrecht Glitz, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Datum: 24.10.2018

Vortragsthema: Industrial Espionage and Productivity (pdf)

Gunter Löffler, Universität Ulm

Datum: 09.01.2019

Vortragsthema: Systemic Risk Implications of Bond Portfolio Governance

Thomas Setzer, WFI

Datum: 16.01.2019

Vortragsthema: Error Decomposition and Shrinkage of Weights in Expectation Combination Models

Joachim Büschken, WFI

Datum: 30.01.2019

Vortragsthema: Improving Text Analysis Using Sentence Conjunctions and Punctuation (pdf)

Sabine Benoit, University of Surrey

Datum: 09.05.2018

Vortragsthema: How to react to chain liability: Consumer trust damage and repair in supply chains

Kay Blaufus, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Datum: 23.05.2018

Vortragsthema: Tax Misperceptions and the Effect of Informational Tax Nudges on Retirement Savings (pdf)

Dominika Langenmayr, WFI

Datum: 06.06.2018

Vortragsthema: Taxation and Corporate Risk-Taking (pdf)

Katja Gelbrich, WFI

Datum: 27.06.2018

Vortragsthema: Compensation Revisited: A Social Resource Theory Perspective on Offering a Monetary Resource After a Service Failure (pdf)

Hinweis: Ausnahmsweise findet der Vortrag in Raum Z 01 NB statt.