Spanish Abstract: Durante los últimos años, los bancos europeos se han enfrentado a una crisis financiera y a importantes cambios regulatorios que, en muchos casos, han puesto en peligro su viabilidad. En dicho contexto, resulta de interés evaluar el desempeño de estos bancos a través de su...

Spanish abstract: Este trabajo pretende analizar someramente un evento de lo que consideramos la crisis estructural de la zona euro: el conflicto independentista en Cataluña (2017). Nos concentraremos en el análisis del fenómeno económico, entendiéndolo como consecuencia de la crisis del...

Two savings banks are currently active in the Canary Isles: Caja Rural de Tenerife and Caja Rural de Canarias, and these are furthermore the only two loan co-operatives in the region. And as they are also virtually the only loan co-operatives that have been successful, to talk about the economic...

The fundamental objective of this paper is to show the evolution of the agricultural credit co-operative movement in Spain during the first third of the XX century, when this finance alternative emerged and took shape, based on producer association. With this motive, we analyse aspects such as:...

In a country with a low endowment of capital resources, like Spain, should be very important to know the regional financial flows to explain the growth at that level. In this work, we try to study the effects of the regional distribution of deposits and credits in the Spanish financial system...

The banking sector is the more important segment of Spanish financial system. Other financial institutions have had little signification, and they have also been controlled for banks. The Spanish financial literature has situated the born of investment trusts in the 1950 decade because of the...

In the last eight centuries there have been hundreds of banking crises throughout the entire planet. Spain has not been an exception and our history is plagued with numerous financial disasters in which the collapse of one institution has jeopardized the stability of the whole financial...