A trend common to virtually all European banking markets over the last decade or so has been the fall in bank numbers … is declining. However, a growth in branch numbers in many systems, increasing foreign bank presence, as well as the … any risks for consumers. The paper concludes with some observations on the impact of mergers on bank performance. Economic …

mutual recognition have cleared the road for cross-border banking, while the introduction of the single currency on the first …

industry shows the apparent importance of a national currency. For instance, the markets for pension funds and mutual fund … introduction of a common currency changes fundamentally the sources of competitive advantage of banks. Clearly, this calls for a …

the massive accumulation of nonperforming loans on banks' balance sheets, bank failures, and the economic recession in the …

agree to this assessment, it is also true that the degree of monetisation and bank intermediation in the Hungarian economy …

institutions. In 1960, a new banking law further reduced the range of commercial activities of the National Bank of Yugoslavia (the … central bank) and opened the way to the creation of commercial banks. To ensure that banks met the needs of non … the development of banking was the establishment of the Credit and Savings Bank Ljubljana in 1967, which accounted for …

reviews the debate about marketbased vs. bank-based financial systems. Using data for a sample of 40 countries over the period … economic growth, but the degree to which a financial system is market- or bank-based cannot explain economic development across …