Der Beitrag geht über die Transformation des Bankensystems in Osteuropa und über die Erfahrungen, die bisher damit gemacht wurden. Bisher kann festgestellt werden, daß die Reformländer in eine Bankunion mit der EG treten sollen, um dadurch eine Effizienzsteigerung zu erreichen. Das Bankrecht...

Our research as well as that by other authors has found scale economies at all sizes of banks and the largest scale economies at the largest banks – that is, larger banks are able to provide products at lower average cost than smaller banks. While the earlier literature found that scale...

This paper analyzes how corporate taxation and regulatory requirements affect the location of financial sector FDI. We use novel information on new financial services entities established by multinational firms in 83 host countries. We find a negative effect of host country taxes on the...