Die 40. Auflage des gut benutzten Klassikers ist in Umfang und vor allem im Preis wesentlich erweitert (zuletzt BA 10/93). Teile des Buches wurden völlig neu konzipiert, um den tiefgreifenden Veränderungen in der nationalen und internationalen Finanzwirtschaft Rechnung zu tragen. Gleiches gilt...

By introducing a new measure of the banking systems' size, the paper challenges the existing consensus on severe underdevelopment of the CEE banking sectors. We argue that the existing studies on the size of CEE banking systems exaggerate the real degree of underdevelopment because common...

Despite the fact that banks in Central Europe are burdened by extraordinarily high bad loan ratios, the recent financial crisis in South East Asia and Russia, has not led to a massive failure of banks in the region. In this paper, we study economic trends and policies that may have helped to...