Overview
The book asks whether transplanting banks can solve the problems involved in creating a well-functioning market economy from outside, looking especially at the virtually complete takeover of East German banks by their Western counterparts after unification. Drawing on a wide range of English and German sources, and fieldwork interviews across Germany, it argues that there are no quick fix solutions to transition to a market. Implications are discussed for East Germany and for other previously centrally planned economies, and the global implications of foreign ownership in banking are considered.
- | Author: G. Robins
- | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- | Publication Date: Feb 17, 2000
- | Number of Pages: 287 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0333751353
- | ISBN-13: 9780333751350
