This edited volume showcases how the European cooperative banks have continued to evolve amid a new competitive scenario that resulted from the Global Financial Crisis started in Europe in 2008. The cooperative banking paradigm has been put under an unprecedented pressure as a consequence of...

Rethinking Theory on the Role of Technological Innovation in Economic Development -- Information Model for Calculating the Rate of Technical Progress -- K-Waves and the Innovation-Technological Paradigm of Schumpeter–Mensch–Freeman–Hirooka -- Assessment of the Quality of Growth of National...

Convergence to the Centre -- Financial Markets: Banks Capital Markets -- Firm Size, Productivity, EU-Funds and Corruption -- Labour Markets: Structural Characteristics and the Impact of Two Crises -- Transport and Mobility -- Monetary, Macroprudential, and Fiscal Policy -- Green Economy: Energy,...

Chapter 1: Public Support for the Euro and Trust in the ECB: The first two decades of the common currency -- Chapter 2: Revisiting Public Support for the Euro, 1999-2017: Accounting for the crisis and the recovery -- Chapter 3: Public Support for the Euro -- Chapter 4: Crisis and Public Support...

1. Background to the HICP -- 2. First Meeting of the HICP Working Party -- 3. Guiding Principles: Framework Regulation -- 4.Interim Indices of Consumer Prices (IICP) -- 5.Launch of the HICP -- 6.Classification of Household Consumption Expenditure -- 7.Coverage of the HICP: What, Where, Who? --...

1. Introduction -- 2. State Intervention and Principle of Proportionality -- 3. Literature Review – Global Economics Leading Up To and Resulting From the 2007 Economic Crisis -- 4. Interventions by Governments -- 5. Research Methods -- 6. Overview of EU Responses to the Global Economic Crisis...

Chapter 1. Debt valuation: An alternative method to avoid future default (Thomas Poufinas and Evangelos Drimpetas) -- Chapter 2. The impact of Quantitative Easing Policy on the government debt and the NPLs of the Eurozone periphery countries (Dionysios Chionis, Fotios Mitropoulos and Antonios...

This book provides a detailed examination of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) after closer integration in the European Union. An important facet of European economic integration was the development of a free-trade area in Central and Eastern Europe,...

The ‘Troika’ is a word that is scorched into the narrative of the EU’s banking and economic crisis - a triumvirate constituted by the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund. The modus operandi of the Troika is defined by the authors of this book...