Credit Cooperative Institutions in European Countries

Part I. Credit Cooperative Systems in Western Europe

1. Cooperative Banks in the Austrian Banking System
Johann Brazda, Holger Blisse, Robert Schediwy

2. Co-operative Credit Institutions in Cyprus
Akis Kleanthous, Athanasios Hadjimanolis

3. Co-operative Banks in Finland
Panu Kalmi

4. Cooperative Banks in France: Emergence, Mutations and Issues
Nadine Richez-Battesti, Gérard Leseul

5. The German Cooperative Banks. An Economic Overview
Massimo Biasin

6. The Greek Cooperative Credit System
Simeon Karafolas

7. The Financial Co-operative System in Ireland
Olive McCarthy, Sharon Farrell, David Hewson

8. Italian Credit Cooperative Banks
Ivana Catturani, Maria Lucia Stefani

9. Rabobank Before, During and After the Credit Crisis: From Modesty via Complacency to Fundamental Steps
Hans Groeneveld

10. The Portuguese Cooperative Credit System
Paula Cabo, João Rebelo

11. The Credit Cooperative System in Spain
Gemma Fajardo-García, Francisco Soler-Tormo

12. British Credit Unions: Transformation and Challenge
Paul A. Jones

Part II. Credit Cooperative Systems in Eastern Europe

13. Bulgarian Cooperative Banking
Matteo Cotugno, Valeria Stefanelli

14. The Changing Role of Cooperatives and Credit Unions in Czech Economy
Magdalena Hunčová, Martin Mikeska

15. Credit Unions in Estonia
Andro Roos, John Õun

16. The History, the Current System and the Special Features of Savings Cooperatives in Hungary
Attila Moizs, Gábor G. Szabó

17. Cooperative Savings and Credit Unions in Latvia
Tatjana Mavrenko

18. Credit Unions in Lithuania
Jurgita Liutvinskiene, Jurgita Meskauskaite-Cilliers

19. The Polish Credit Co-operative System: Historical and Contemporary Experiences
Zofia Chyra-Rolicz

20. The Credit Cooperative System in Romania
Daniela Pirvu, Logica Banica

21. Credit Co-operatives in Serbia: Retrospect and Prospect
Richard Simmons, Marija Nikolic

22. Credit Co-operatives in Slovakia
Elena Šúbertová

23. From Credit Cooperatives to Cooperative Bank in Slovenia
Franci Avsec

Keywords: Finance, Banking, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, European Integration