Product Description: This volume visits some idyllic spots on Lake Maggiore, illustrating them with the usual flair we expect from an Archideos book, with descriptions of Villas, Homes, Gardens, Hotels and Restaurants: an economic fabric made up of tourists with their own homes and hoteliers who host cultured guests...read more

Product Description: After the positive experience made in 1999, with the research and consequent publication of the volume "Banking Privatisation in Europe. The Process and the Consequences on Strategies and Organisational Structures", published by Springer-Verlag, we have decided to set up a new group of researchers to study the present changes within the European postal systems and the privatisation developments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Banking privatisation represents one of the major forces which are significantly changing the banking sector in Europe. Studying the process of banking privatisation thus helps to understand the dynamics of the sector. This book analyses - from the perspective of both commercial banking and investment banking - the various processes of banking privatisation in Europe and their effects on the strategies and structures of banks. In its theoretical part, the book considers technical and financial aspects of banking privatisation from Spain, France, Italy, Norway, Germany, and Russia. An indispensable reading for investment bankers, regulators as well as policy-makers responsible for the existence of efficient and stable banking systems. (view table of contents)