The last two decades witnessed fundamental changes in the financial sectors ofindustrialized economies. Deregulation, the removal of entry barriers, the developmentof new financial products and services and technological change continue tospur structural changes in the financial industry. This...

The Italian and German banking systems shared similar characteristics early in the 1990s but have evolved in different directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state-owned savings banks. Contemporaneously, banks in both...

The Italian and German banking systems shared similar characteristics early in the 1990s but have evolved in different directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state-owned savings banks. Contemporaneously, banks in both...