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Competition and profitability in European financial services : strategic, systemic and policy issues / edited by Morten Balling, Frank Lierman and Andy Mullineux.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge international studies in money and bankingPublisher: London : Routledge, 2006Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 322 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203086694
  • 9780203086698
  • 9786610463039
  • 6610463034
  • 9780415384940
  • 041538494X
  • 9781134173778
  • 1134173776
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Competition and profitability in European financial services.DDC classification:
  • 332.1/094 22
LOC classification:
  • HG186.E85 C66 2006eb
Other classification:
  • 83.44
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Strategic and organizational challenges in European banking / Jordi Canals -- 2. Regulatory capital requirements and financial stability / Jaime Caruana -- 3. Markets and institutions : managing the evolving financial risk / Malcolm D. Knight -- 4. Macroeconomic consequences of financial regulation / Josef Christl -- 5. The changing pattern of payments in the United States / Anthony M. Santomero -- 6. The East-West efficiency gap in European banking / Marko Komak and Peter Zajc -- 7. Foreign acquisitions and industry wealth effects of privatization : evidence from the Polish banking industry / Martin T. Bohl, Olena Havrylchyk and Dirk Schiereck -- 8. Electronic payments and ATMs : changing technology and cost efficiency in banking / Santiago Carbó Valverde, David B. Humphrey and Rafael Lopez Del Paso -- 9. Pricing strategies in European banking : specialization, technology and intertemporal smoothing / Santiago Carbó Valverde and Francisco Rodríguez Fernández -- 10. The magnitude of distortions when measuring bank efficiency with misspecified input prices / Michael Koetter -- 11. Competition in a highly concentrated banking sector : theoretical, empirical and practical considerations for the Netherlands / Wim Boonstra and Johannes M. Groeneveld -- 12. Strategic management in banking, in medio virtus / Jean Dermine -- 13. European primarily Internet banks : the profitability outlook / Javier Delgado, Ignacio Hernando and María J. Nieto -- 14. Bank risks and the business cycle / Lieven Baele, Olivier De Jonghe and Rudi Vander Vennet -- 15. House prices and consumer lending / John P. Calverley -- 16. Capital markets and financial integration in Europe / Philipp Hartmann, Simone Manganelli and Cyril Monnet.
Summary: 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.
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1. Strategic and organizational challenges in European banking / Jordi Canals -- 2. Regulatory capital requirements and financial stability / Jaime Caruana -- 3. Markets and institutions : managing the evolving financial risk / Malcolm D. Knight -- 4. Macroeconomic consequences of financial regulation / Josef Christl -- 5. The changing pattern of payments in the United States / Anthony M. Santomero -- 6. The East-West efficiency gap in European banking / Marko Komak and Peter Zajc -- 7. Foreign acquisitions and industry wealth effects of privatization : evidence from the Polish banking industry / Martin T. Bohl, Olena Havrylchyk and Dirk Schiereck -- 8. Electronic payments and ATMs : changing technology and cost efficiency in banking / Santiago Carbó Valverde, David B. Humphrey and Rafael Lopez Del Paso -- 9. Pricing strategies in European banking : specialization, technology and intertemporal smoothing / Santiago Carbó Valverde and Francisco Rodríguez Fernández -- 10. The magnitude of distortions when measuring bank efficiency with misspecified input prices / Michael Koetter -- 11. Competition in a highly concentrated banking sector : theoretical, empirical and practical considerations for the Netherlands / Wim Boonstra and Johannes M. Groeneveld -- 12. Strategic management in banking, in medio virtus / Jean Dermine -- 13. European primarily Internet banks : the profitability outlook / Javier Delgado, Ignacio Hernando and María J. Nieto -- 14. Bank risks and the business cycle / Lieven Baele, Olivier De Jonghe and Rudi Vander Vennet -- 15. House prices and consumer lending / John P. Calverley -- 16. Capital markets and financial integration in Europe / Philipp Hartmann, Simone Manganelli and Cyril Monnet.

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.

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