Este trabajo examina los principales factores que han incidido sobre el proceso de cambio estrat‚gico en el sector de los bancos privados espa¤oles entre 1983 y 1997. Tomando argumentos de la direcci¢n estrat‚gica tradicional, el enfoque ecol¢gico y la aproximaci¢n evolutiva adaptativa,...

Robust mixture modeling approaches using skewed distributions have recently been explored to accommodate asymmetric data. Parsimonious skew-t and skew-normal analogues of the GPCM family that employ an eigenvalue decomposition of a scale matrix are introduced. The methods are compared to...

Like the rest of the world, Spain has suffered frequent financial crises and undergone several changes in its regulatory framework. There have been crises that have been followed by reforms of the financial structure, and also troubled financial times with no modification of the regulatory and...

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of strategic competition in retail banking when some of the financial firms are non-profit organisations that invest in social activities. Banking literature about competition is fairly large, but the strategic interaction between profit...

The historical study of the Spanish nineteenth-century banking system has been almost exclusively carried out through a consideration of the experiences of the joint-stock banks. But the very scarce number of these, and their territorial distribution, makes it necessary for us to look for other...

Spanish banking historiography asserts that the largest banks performed over the twentieth century as though they constituted a monopoly. One of its main coordination schemes would have been a network of interlocking bank directors that would include most of the financial firms. Evidence...

Spanish banking historiography asserts that the largest banks performed in the twentieth century as though they constituted a monopoly. One of their main coordination schemes would have been a network of interlocking bank directors that would include most of the financial firms. Evidence...