Opening up for foreign banks: How Central and Eastern Europe can benefit

被引:21
作者
Buch, CM [1 ]
机构
[1] Kiel Inst World Econ, Dept 5, D-24105 Kiel, Germany
关键词
banking reform; transition economies; foreign direct investment in banking; ECONOMY;
D O I
10.1111/j.1468-0351.1997.tb00021.x
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
This paper analyses the role of foreign banks in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, and Poland. With respect to their planned EU membership, these countries have to consider the full implementation of free trade in financial services. Generally, liberalizing the market access of foreign banks allows the production of financial services according to comparative advantage, it fosters competition, it promotes bank privatization, and it facilitates a transfer of know-how into the emerging financial systems. The most important sequencing issue that arises is that the incumbent banks should have been recapitalized for their truly inherited bad loans before markets are opened up. In view of the reform progress that has already been made in the countries under review, abolishing remaining entry barriers is unlikely to put the stability of banking systems at risk while allowing the benefits of open markets to be exploited.
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页码:339 / 366
页数:28
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