The Changing Geography of Banking and Finance The Main Issues /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zazzaro, Alberto (Editor), Fratianni, Michele (Editor), Alessandrini, Pietro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Entrepreneurship.; Finance.; Macroeconomics.; Public finance.; Economic policy.; Economics.; Public Economics.; Finance, general.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Economic Policy.

Two contrasting trends have emerged from the intense integration and consolidation process that have swept the European and U.S. banking industry in the 1990s: the geographical diffusion of banking structures and instruments and the geographical concentration of banking power in a few financial cent...

Table of 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.