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At least in the past, banking in continental Europe has been characterised by a number of features that are quite specific to the region. They include the following: (1) banks play a strong role in their respective financial systems; (2) universal banking is prevalent; (3) not strictly profit-oriented banks play a significant role; and (4) there are considerable differences between national banking systems. It can be safely assumed that the future of banking in Europe will be shaped by three major external developments: deregulation and liberalisation; advances in information technology; and economic, financial and monetary integration. The overall consequences of these developments would be much too vast a topic to be addressed in one short paper. Therefore the present paper concentrates on the following question: Are the traditional peculiarities of the banking and financial systems of continental Europe likely to disappear as a consequence of the aforementioned external developments or are they more likely to remain in spite of these developments? The external developments affect the features specific to banking in continental Europe only indirectly and only via the strategies selected and pursued by the various players in the financial systems, notably the banks themselves, and in ways which strongly depend on the structure of the banking industry and the level of competition between banks and other providers of financial services. The paper develops an informal model of the relationships between (1) external developments, (2) bank strategies and the structure of the banking industry, and (3) the peculiarities of banking in Europe, and derives a hypothesis predicting which of the traditional peculiarities are likely to disappear and which are likely to remain. It argues that, overall, the peculiarities are not likely to disappear in the short or the medium term. First version June 2000. This version March 2001.
Waren die ersten Europäer Abenteurer? : Abenteurer als Helden der Literatur vom 16.-20. Jahrhundert
(2001)
Interdisziplinäre Euro-Konferenz der Universität GH Essen im Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn, 16.-19. Februar 2000 (Kongreßbericht)
Wenn der "Abenteurer" spätestens im 19. Jahrhundert zum Mythos aufgestiegen ist, so hat er es dennoch bis heute weder zu einem Artikel in einem der großen europäischen Konversationslexika gebracht - noch widmete ihm die historische Forschung (die ihn als eine Verfallserscheinung des Ancien régime beschrieb) je mehr als ein beiläufiges Interesse. Dabei ist der Abenteurer keineswegs allein ein Phänomen des 18. Jahrhunderts. Vielmehr kann man seine Gestalt vom 16. bis ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein verfolgen. Diese Kontinuität der abenteuerlichen Existenz seit dem 16. Jahrhundert bildete nun das Thema einer internationalen Forschungskonferenz, die die Universität GH Essen mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und der Europäischen Kommission veranstaltete.
Rezension zu Adrian Hsia: Chinesia. The European Construction of China in the Literature of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Tübingen (Niemeyer) 1998. 144 Seiten.
Der vorliegende Band erschließt in einem panoramatischen Überblick die vielen Gesichter "Chinesiens" von der Barockzeit bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert auf der Grundlage literarischer, philosophischer, sozialwissenschaftlicher und kulturhistorischer Textzeugnisse.
Hofmannsthal 9/2001
(2001)
"Eurocomprehension" is the term used to describe European intercomprehension in Europe’s three major language families, the Romance, the Slavic and the Germanic. The aim of eurocomprehension is to achieve multilingualism conforming to EU language policy goals through the entry-point of receptive competence in a modular structure. Linguistic intercomprehension research forms the transfer bases for the cognitive use of relations between the language groups which didactics of multilingualism implement. ...
Rezensionen zu Wolfgang J. Mommsen: 1848. Die ungewollte Revolution. Die revolutionären Bewegungen in Europa 1830-1848. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1998; Manfred Botzenhart: 1848/49: Europa im Umbruch. Paderborn, München, Wien, Zürich: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1998; Geschichtswerkstatt (Hg.): Die Revolution hat Konjunktur. Soziale Bewegungen, Alltag und Politik in der Revolution 1848/49. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 1999.