The Recent Evolution of Financial Systems

Notes on the Contributors - PART 1: THE LATEST PHASE IN THE EVOLUTION OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS - A New Look at the Evolution of the Financial System; T.M.Rybczynski - The Banking Industry in the Nineties: Do Emerging Trends Challenge the Theory?; J.Metais - The Future of 'Traditional Banking'; E.P.M.Gardener - Comments of Discussants; J-P.Abraham, J.Revell, F.Cesarini, G.Bergendahl & J.Quesada - PART 2: THE RESPONSE OF BANKING SYSTEMS TO SECURITISATION - Bank Lending and the Securitisation Process: a Comparative Analysis; A.Landi & G.Lusignani - The Efficient Management of Risk in Financial Systems: Universal Bank or Securitisation?; E.Montanaro & M.Pompella - Trends in German Banking; L.Schuster - Universal Banks, Ownership and Efficiency: a Stochastic Frontier Analysis of the German Banking Market; Y.Altunbas, L.Evans & P.Molyneux - The Restructuring of Banking Groups in Italy: Major Issues; E.Gualandri - Recent Developments in Retail Banking in Scandinavia: Narrow v. Universal Banking; T.Lindblom & M.Andersson - Universal Banking in Central and Eastern Europe; S.Ligeti - Technical Progress in Spanish Banking, 1985-94; J.Maudos, J.M.Pastor & J.Quesada - The Internationalisation of Dutch Banks: a New Beginning?; S.Sijbrands & D.J.Eppink - Index