This book analyzes the segment of banking servicesthat focus on families and family-owned businesses, within the private banking business, by examining synergies among the various financial integrated activities and by offering ideas on how to develop new business opportunities. (JSD) Table of...

We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and insurers differs, an interesting question from a supervisory point of view is the risk reduction that derives from diversification within large banks and financial...

We test whether output growth in European economic agglomeration regions depends on financial development. To this end we suggest a relative measure of the quality of financial institutions rather than the usual quantity proxy of financial development. In order to measure the quality of...