After a review of factors such as technology and the related policy toward financial liberalization that has affected financial institutions worldwide, this paper focuses on changes in Continental Europe. We identify and review three driving forces: (a) European integration, (b) the factors that...

This study explores the effect of corporate governance on financial innovation and the effect of financial innovation on performance in Taiwan's banking industry from 2011 to 2019. The results find that the banks have higher shareholding of institutional investors, ratio of independent...

Trust offices (administratiekantoren) that repackage securities have been a central institution in Dutch finance since the late eighteenth century. Their basic form and functioning have remained largely the same, but over time, the repackaging has come to serve a variety of very different...

Der vorliegende Band enthält die überarbeiteten Beiträge zur Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgruppe Wettbewerb des Wirtschaftspolitischen Ausschusses im Verein für Socialpolitik im März 2000 in Potsdam. Ziel dieser Tagung war es, den zur Zeit stattfindenden bahnbrechenden Umbruch der Kapitalmärkte...