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Increasing concentration and competition in European banking: The end of anti-trust?

Malyneux, Philip - In: EIB Papers 4 (1999) 1, pp. 127-136

A trend common to virtually all European banking markets over the last decade or so has been the fall in bank numbers … is declining. However, a growth in branch numbers in many systems, increasing foreign bank presence, as well as the … any risks for consumers. The paper concludes with some observations on the impact of mergers on bank performance. Economic …

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Who are Europe's efficient bankers?

Wagenvoort, Rien; Schure, Paul - In: EIB Papers 4 (1999) 1, pp. 105-126

On the first of January 1993, the Second Banking Directive (1989) of the European Union and a number of the other EU Directives (1) related to the financial service industry were implemented. This heralded a new episode of deregulation, standardised minimum capital requirements and changes in...

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On the road to wonderful? Bank restructuring after EMU

Hurst, Christopher; Perée, Eric; Fischbach, Mireille - In: EIB Papers 4 (1999) 1, pp. 83-103

Throughout the industrialised world the banking sector has embarked on a programme of restructuring and consolidation. In Japan the severity of the banking crisis has recently forced both the banking sector and the authorities to recognise deep-rooted problems and to take decisive action. In...

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The case for a European-wide strategy

Dermine, Jean - In: EIB Papers 4 (1999) 1, pp. 137-143

Although a large series of papers have been concerned with macroeconomic issues such as price stability or employment, very few studies have discussed the impact of the euro on the competitive structure of European banking markets. Two questions are being addressed in this paper: How does the...

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The Czech Republic's banking sector: Emerging from turbulent times

Hájková, Dana; Hanousek, Jan; Němeček, Libor - In: EIB Papers 7 (2002) 1, pp. 55-72

the massive accumulation of nonperforming loans on banks' balance sheets, bank failures, and the economic recession in the …

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Hungary's banking sector: achievements and challenges

Várhegyi, Éva - In: EIB Papers 7 (2002) 1, pp. 75-89

agree to this assessment, it is also true that the degree of monetisation and bank intermediation in the Hungarian economy …

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Successful banking in an enlarged EU

Hampel, Erich - In: EIB Papers 7 (2002) 1, pp. 109-115

From the single-tiered banking system of the late 1980s, still ruled by the communist party, Eastern Europe's financial system has evolved towards one which EU countries have long been accustomed to. Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) are now on the brink of EU membership, and...

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Slovenian banks a decade later

Zajc, Peter - In: EIB Papers 7 (2002) 1, pp. 91-106

institutions. In 1960, a new banking law further reduced the range of commercial activities of the National Bank of Yugoslavia (the … central bank) and opened the way to the creation of commercial banks. To ensure that banks met the needs of non … the development of banking was the establishment of the Credit and Savings Bank Ljubljana in 1967, which accounted for …

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Practice makes perfect: a review of banking in Central and Eastern Europe

Riess, Armin; Wagenvoort, Rien; Zajc, Peter - In: EIB Papers 7 (2002) 1, pp. 31-53

Planned economies produced many goods and services - such as cars, electricity, and machinery - that did not differ fundamentally from those available in market economies. Certainly, the quality and variety of these goods and services did not reach Western standards and there was an almost...

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Stock markets, banks, and economic development: Theory and evidence

Beck, Thorsten - In: EIB Papers 8 (2003) 1, pp. 37-54

reviews the debate about marketbased vs. bank-based financial systems. Using data for a sample of 40 countries over the period … economic growth, but the degree to which a financial system is market- or bank-based cannot explain economic development across …

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