Chapter 1: Bank Management after the Great Crisis -- Chapter 2: Bank Profitability: Measures and Determinants -- Chapter 3: Profitability of European Banks: A Quantitative Analysis -- Chapter 4: Making Profits in the New Competitive and Regulatory Framework

Containing a series of case studies of cooperative banks in times of crisis, this book reflects upon the cooperative business model and the governance structures of cooperative banks. Such banks have weathered the current financial crisis relatively well. In most countries, they did not need...

​1 Bank Management After the Great Crisis2 Bank Profitability: Measures and Determinants 3 Profitability of European Banks: A Quantitative Analysis 4 Making Profits in the New Competitive and Regulatory Framework

Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In Unsettled Account, Richard Grossman takes the first truly...

Main description: Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In Unsettled Account, Richard Grossman takes...