Bank Strategies and Challenges in the New Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
The Bank is Dead, Long Live the Bank....Pages 1-18
Technical Change in European Banking....Pages 19-45
Competitive Advantage Based on Information Technology in Banking....Pages 46-63
Emerging Methods of Payment....Pages 64-70
Dimensions of Actions Distribution....Pages 71-86
Card Payments: Pricing and Competition....Pages 87-105
The Unified European Banking Market and the Convergence of National Banking Sectors....Pages 106-138
Product Mix of the Spanish Banking Firms: Do Competition Clubs Exist? ....Pages 139-163
Institutional Investment Flows and the Regions of the UK: a Case for a New Financial Infrastructure? ....Pages 164-192
Characteristics of International Financial Centres....Pages 193-200
Globalisation, Cross-Border Trade in Financial Services and Offshore Banking: the Case of Ireland....Pages 201-212
The Impact of CAR on Bank Capital Augmentation in Spain....Pages 213-231
The Management of Foreign Exchange Exposures and Interest Rate Exposures in a Number of UK and Swedish Firms between 1985 and 1996....Pages 232-271
Fat Tails and the Effect on Optimal Asset Allocations....Pages 272-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-297