Competition and profitability in European financial services : strategic, systemic and policy issues /

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Imprint:	New York : Routledge March 2006 Ipswich : Ebsco Publishing [distributor]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge international studies in money and banking Routledge international studies in money and banking.
Subject:	Financial services industry -- European Union countries. Economic policy. Financial services industry. European Union countries -- Economic policy. European Union countries.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12913360

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Other authors / contributors:	Balling, Morten. Lierman, Frank, 1948- Mullineux, A. W.
ISBN:	9780203086698 0203086694 1134173784 9781134173785 1280463031 9781280463037 9786610463039 6610463034
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English.
Summary:	Annotation This collection of research contributions, written by leading academics and researchers, includes trend evaluations and examinations of the driving forces behind the efficiency, competition and profitability of financial firms and institutions in Europe. Financial services firms play a key role in the European economy. The efficiency and profitability of these firms and the competition among them have an impact on allocation of savings, financing of investment, economic growth, the stability of the financial system and the transmission of monetary policy. This collection of research contributions includes evaluations of trends in the European financial service industry and examinations of the driving forces of efficiency, competition and profitability of financial firms and institutions in Europe. The papers have been written.
Other form:	0-415-49400-1 0-415-38494-X

Table of Contents:

1. Strategic and Organizational Challenges in European Banking
2. Regulatory Capital Requirements and Financial Stability
3. Markets and Institutions: Managing the Evolving Financial Risk
4. Macroeconomic Consequences of Financial Market Regulation
5. The Changing Pattern of Payments in the United States
6. The East-West Efficiency Gap in European Banking
7. Foreign Acquisitions and Industry Wealth Effects of Privatisation: Evidence from the Polish Banking Industry
8. Electronic Payments and ATMs: Changing Technology and Cost Efficiency in Banking
9. Pricing Strategies in European Banking: Specialization, Technology and Intertemporal Smoothing
10. Bank Efficiency and Mis-specified Input Prices
11. Competition in a Highly Concentrated Banking Sector - Theoretical Empirical and Practical Considerations for the Netherlands
12. Strategic Management in Banking: In Medio Virtus
13. Do European Primarily Internet Banks Show Scale and Experience Efficiencies?
14. Bank Risks and the Business Cycle
15. House Prices and Consumer Lending
16. Capital Markets and Financial Integration in Europe

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