Geography, ownership and uneven trends in the economic performance of small banking centres in Europe during the financial crisis

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969776420930757" target="_blank" >10.1177/0969776420930757</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Geography, ownership and uneven trends in the economic performance of small banking centres in Europe during the financial crisis

Original language description

The current phase of intensive globalisation, digitisation, the expansion of fintech companies and the overall impacts of the recent crisis seem to spur further concentration in the banking sector in terms of both the number of banks in operation and the number of banking centres. This research is motivated by the fact that, in contrast to leading financial and banking centres that attract considerable research attention, small banking centres have remained underresearched, despite their large number and the important role they play in their host communities and regions. This paper deals with the recent evolutionary dynamics of 199 small European banking centres and is based on an analysis of the economic performance of individual banks aggregated at the city level where they have their headquarters. The analysed indicators cover size, profitability and the level of risk of particular banks over the 2004-2015 period. In addition, the data were analysed for three basic European macro-regions (western Europe, southern Europe and central and eastern Europe) and in terms of the ownership of the banks headquartered in particular centres (foreign versus domestic). Our investigation shows that, even though a significant decline has been observed in the number of these centres, the financial performance of banks headquartered in small financial centres differs widely, depending significantly upon the European macro-region (a decisive number of defunct banking centres was concentrated in southern Europe) and the ownership structure.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Urban and Regional Studies

ISSN

0969-7764

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

359-378

UT code for WoS article

000542409300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85086771430