Competition and Profitability in European

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.

List of figures

ix

List of tables

xi

List of contributors

xv

Acknowledgements

xvii

List of abbreviations

xix

Introduction

1

(7)

Morten Balling

Strategic and organizational challenges in European banking

8

(14)

Jordi Canals

Regulatory capital requirements and financial stability

22

(13)

Jaime Caruana

Markets and institutions: managing the evolving financial risk

35

(9)

Malcolm D. Knight

Macroeconomic consequences of financial regulation

44

(7)

Josef Christl

The changing pattern of payments in the United States

51

(12)

Anthony M. Santomero

The East--West efficiency gap in European banking

63

(17)

Marko Kosak

Peter Zajc

Foreign acquisitions and industry wealth effects of privatization: evidence from the Polish banking industry

80

(16)

Martin T. Bohl

Olena Havrylchyk

Dirk Schiereck

Electronic payments and ATMs: changing technology and cost efficiency in banking

96

(18)

Santiago Carbo Valverde

David B. Humphrey

Rafael Lopez Del Paso

Pricing strategies in European banking: specialization, technology and intertemporal smoothing

114

(28)

Santiago Carbo Valverde

Francisco Rodriguez Fernandez

The magnitude of distortions when measuring bank efficiency with misspecified input prices

142

(41)

Michael Koetter

Competition in a highly concentrated banking sector: theoretical, empirical and practical considerations for the Netherlands

183

(21)

Wim Boonstra

Johannes M. Groeneveld

Strategic management in banking, in medio virtus

204

(18)

Jean Dermine

European primarily Internet banks: the profitability outlook

222

(8)

Javier Delgado

Ignacio Hernando

Maria J. Nieto

Bank risks and the business cycle

230

(27)

Lieven Baele

Olivier de Jonghe

Rudi Vander Vennet

House prices and consumer lending

257

(24)

John P. Calverley

Capital markets and financial integration in Europe

281

(26)

Philipp Hartmann

Simone Manganelli

Cyril Monnet

Index

307

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Competition and Profitability in European Financial Services: Strategic, Systemic and Policy Issues

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