This paper provides a two steps investigation of the literature on banking corporate governance. We firstly perform a …

Modern banking institutions were virtually non-existent in the planned economies of central Europe and the former … Soviet Union. In the early transition period, banking sectors began to develop during several years of macroeconomic decline … addition, rapid progress in bank privatization and consolidation took place in the late 1990s and early 2000s, usually with the …

This paper provides an overview of the history of banking transition (1989-2006) in 13 CEE countries – with particular … emphasis on four relatively large Balkan countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro). Two “banking reform … European FDI has come to dominate banking in most countries, including those of the Balkans. Recently, credit booms have …

Many reforms of banking market liberalization in CEE countries raised the question on the convergence of banks …, and with faster convergence trend for foreign banks. Despite the efforts for banking market integration, there is no …

Key points:• This article considers how the recent market turmoil affected national banking systems, thereby prompting … Suisse.• The article analyses how the debate extended internationally to the whole banking sector, with managers' pay …