Our aim is to empirically assess differences in behaviour and performance of European cooperative and commercial banks in a low interest rate environment. We employ dynamic panel data methods to assess the relative performance of both ownership structures based on a data set of nearly 1,000...

The structural diversity of the German banking market and the associated variety of business models is thought to have been an important factor in the stability of the German banking market in recent decades. This diversity is manifested both in the three-pillar structure of the German banking...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. When Knowledge Becomes Risky...And Other Stories -- Chapter 3. Knowledge Management, Risk Management and Knowledge Risk Management: What is Missing in the Financial and Banking Sectors? -- Chapter 4. Does Diversity Make a Difference? Moving Inside the Sample...

Part I: Credit Cooperative Systems in Western Europe -- Cooperative banks in the Austrian banking system -- So-operative Credit Institutions in Cyprus -- Co-operative banks in Finland -- Cooperative banks in France: Emergence, mutations and issues -- The German cooperative banks. An economic...