Modern Banking in the Balkans

Aldershot. 1999

Editor

Kostas Kostis

First published in 1999, this book covers the period from 1860 to the end of the 20th th Century, charting the contribution of foreign, and, in particular, West-European capital to the modernization of Balkan banking systems. The contributions focus on national experiences and the specific ways in which each national banking system received foreign capital, as well as offering a wider synthesis that highlights the dynamics of West-European capital in forming Balkan realities. The volume aims to give national accounts of the penetration of West-European capital in Balkan states, as well as an understanding of the West-European conception of the importance of the Balkans in the wider context of European communities.

Table of contents

• Foreign Capital in the Bulgarian Banking System, 1878-1944-1997 (Ljuben Berov)
• Foreign Banks in Romania: A Historical Perspective (Christian Bichi)
• The Imperial Ottoman Bank: Actor or Instrument of Ottoman Modernisation? (Edhem Eldem)
• Western Capital and the Bulgarian Banking System. Late Nineteenth Century-Second World War (Alexandre Kostov)
• Foreign Banks in Serbia, 1882-1914 (Andrej Mitrović)
• The Greek Banking System and its Deregulation: History, Structure and Organization in a European Context (George Pagoulatos)
• The History of Nova Ljublanska Banka (NLB) in the Framework of Slovene Experience with West-European Capital (Franjo Štiblar)
• The Changing Nature of Internationalization of the Greek Financial Sector (Tassos Giannitsis)
• Issues of Management Control and Sovereignty in Transnational Banking in the Eastern Mediterranean before the Frist World War (Christos Hadziiossif)
• Banking and Politics in Austria-Hungary (Günther Kronenbitter)
• Capital markets and Economic Integration in South-east Europe, 1919-89: Lessons from Western Banking in the Two Yugoslavias (John R. Lampe)
• The Role of Jews in Serbian Banking until the first World War (Danica Milić)
• The Position and Role of French Finance in the Balkans from the Late Nineteenth Century until the Second World War (Alain Plessis and Olivier Feiertag)