基本説明
Investigates the impact of bank cosolidation, especially in regard to credit and capital for small and medium-sized businesses. International in scope, with coverage of America, Europe and Asia.
Full Description
The editors and contributors tackle a timely subject, and present rigorous research and analysis to demonstrate counter-intuitive results. In so doing, they reinforce the connections between organization and policy in the banking industry and its impact on entrepreneurship, through lending and credit to small and medium-sized businesses. The editors present a carefully organized manuscript that presents both literature reviews and the results of original empirical research that will be of interest to academics and professionals in finance, economics, and policy. The authorship and coverage are global. One of the authors, Michele Fratiani, has close ties to Springer, by virtue of his being a founding editor of Open Economies Review and co-editor of the book series, European and Transatlantic Studies.
Contents
Distance and Banks' Organization.- The Changing Geography of Banking and Finance: The Main Issues.- Financial Innovation, Organizations, and Small Business Lending.- Does Distance Matter in Banking?.- Distance, Bank Organizational Structure, and Lending Decisions.- Geographical Organization of Banking Systems and Innovation Diffusion.- Distance and Internet Banking.- Borders and Market Structure.- Bank Market Structure, Competition, and Stability: Issues and Concepts.- Bank Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions: Causes, Consequences, and Recent Trends.- What Are Borders Made of? An Analysis of Barriers to European Banking Integration.- Regulatory Framework and Financial Centers.- Designing a Regulatory and Supervisory Framework for Integrated Financial Markets.- Crisis Management and Lender of Last Resort in the European Banking Market.- The Evolutionary Chain of International Financial Centers.- Financial Centers Between Centralization and Virtualization.
