This book offers a comparative analysis of how post-crisis restructuring has affected the evolution and prospects of small, locally-oriented banks. The discussion focuses specifically on “small” European countries; that is, countries with diversified banking systems, with a strong presence...

This book addresses and explains the divergent economic and political outcomes of the financial crisis in the eight European Union member states which needed a bailout program: Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal, Romania and Spain. Looking at crisis management as a series of...

EU coordination in Greece: "forced" Europeanization under the MoU? / Calliope Spanou -- EU coordination in Ireland : centralization to master the crisis / Brigid Laffan -- EU coordination in Portugal : continuity and flexibility in a Troika Regime / José M. Magone -- EU coordination in Cyprus :...