This paper provides a two steps investigation of the literature on banking corporate governance. We firstly perform a …

This study examines the government's incentives to control partially privatized SOEs in share issue privatization in …

The aim of the present paper is to discuss the role of the Mass Privatization Programme (MPP) in Poland, as a vehicle …, as a novel way of effective privatization of firms involved coupled with their overhaul and in-depth restructuring …. Unlike similar mass privatization schemes in other transition economies (e.g. Russia, Czech Republic or Slovakia) the Polish …

Modern banking institutions were virtually non-existent in the planned economies of central Europe and the former … Soviet Union. In the early transition period, banking sectors began to develop during several years of macroeconomic decline … addition, rapid progress in bank privatization and consolidation took place in the late 1990s and early 2000s, usually with the …

This paper provides an overview of the history of banking transition (1989-2006) in 13 CEE countries – with particular … emphasis on four relatively large Balkan countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro). Two “banking reform … European FDI has come to dominate banking in most countries, including those of the Balkans. Recently, credit booms have …

Among the main issues surround corporate governance in Islamic banking is that dealing with the role of Sharī …'ah Supervisory Boards (SSB). The role of the SSB is particularly important before the launching of any new Islamic banking product … and in making strategic decisions. Therefore, in Islamic banking, the role of the SSB is essential, particularly as the …