Privileged Interfirm/Bank Relationships in Central Europe: Trigger or Trap for Corporate Governance?

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Peter R. Haiss

WU Vienna University of Economics and Business; UniCredit Bank Austria; IES Vienna - Institute for the International Education of Students

Lucjan T. Orlowski

Sacred Heart University - John F. Welch College of Business

Dominick Salvatore

Fordham University - Department of Economics

Gerhard Fink

Dept of International Business and Trade

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Date Written: 1999

Abstract

The paper focuses on the question whether banks and capital markets in Central Europe are capable of exerting a positive influence on enterprise performance at the present stage of the economic transformation. These markets are characterised by privileged, collaborative interfirm/interbank relationships demonstrated through various channels. Among them is the competition for private deposits between commercial and national banks that are simultaneously supervisors of commercial banks, as is the case in Poland. Other channels include: heavily indebted large banks that are owners of industrial companies (as is the case in Slovakia with the steel mill VSZ owning the third largest bank IRB), investment funds that are facilitating industrial restructuring, and foreign banks holding only minority stakes in large domestic financial institutions.

Keywords: Interfirm, bank relationship, Central Europe

JEL Classification: P34, O16, G21, G34

Suggested Citation

Haiss, Peter R. and Orlowski, Lucjan T. and Salvatore, Dominick and Fink, Gerhard, Privileged Interfirm/Bank Relationships in Central Europe: Trigger or Trap for Corporate Governance? (1999). CASE Network Studies and Analyses No. 170, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1467490 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1467490

Peter R. Haiss

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