Traditional cooperative banks are considered as locally and socially embedded, lending to local clients from locally collected deposits and financing the local economy.. To offset their disadvantage due to their insufficient ...

This paper examines the development of international financial centres (IFC) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The study argues that the development of the financial services in CEE is characterized by external dependency, ...

This paper investigates the long-term problems of capital accumulation in the context of centre and periphery and dependency models, the systemic and geoeconomic features of the integration of post-socialist transition ...