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Title: Savings banks as financial institutions: role, performance and impact Organizers:
Duncan M. Ross (United Kingdom) and Paul Thomes (Germany)
Description of the session: This session will take an explicitly inclusive and comparative approach to the role, performance and impact of savings banks in the process of economic and financial development. There are three main principles. First, we will take a long-term perspective, so that papers on recent (e.g. post deregulation and merger performance in the UK) activities will be as welcome as those dealing with nineteenth century savings gathering in Europe, North America or anywhere else. It is hoped that this will encourage a range of approaches, including involvement from scholars in cognate disciplines who are interested in these institutions. Secondly, the organisers seek to encourage analysis not only of the institutions, but also of their customers; that is, we wish to explore savings activity and the contribution of savings banks to savings rates in those countries in which they developed. Third, we seek to place savings banks in the context of their host financial system and in this way be able to say something about the changing nature and identity of the savings bank as a form of organisation separate and distinct from commercial banks. The relationship between savings and commercial banks in a variety of settings will be explored. Participants:
Timothy Alborn (USA); Duncan Ross (UK); Cormac O'Grada (Ireland); Paul Thomes
(Germany); Joan Carles Maixé Altés (Spain); Hilda Hellgren, K. Lillja, Tom
Petersson, Anders Sjolander (Sweden); Jos van der Linden (The Netherlands); John
Wilson (UK); G. Del Angel-Mubarak (USA).
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