Studies and research on cooperative banks

Since promoting the cooperative banking business model is one of our missions, the EACB is supporting the research on cooperative banking by being a partner to researchers, or by publishing its own studies. Since 2013, we also stimulate the research with our Award for Young Researchers on Cooperative Banks.

New Cooperative Banking in Europe: Strategies for Adapting the Business Model Post Crisis - Editor M. MIGLIORELLI

This edited volume showcases how the European cooperative banks have continued to evolve amid a new competitive scenario that resulted from the Global Financial Crisis started in Europe in 2008.

4 September 2018

External Studies

Co-operative banks: at the service of their members and society

On the 30th of March 1818, one of the founding fathers of the co-operative banking movement in Europe was born: Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818-1888). Raiffeisen’s 200th birthday offers a good opportunity to put the spotlights on the specificities of the...

20 March 2018

EACB Studies

Co-operative banks’ engagement to green and sustainable finance and fight against climate change

Fighting global warming is not a theoretical enagagement. It raises the question of a sustainable tranformation of our economic models that must better consider the impact of human activities on the environment in a long-term perspective.

30 November 2017

EACB Studies

European Co-operative Banks in 2016: a concise assessment, TIAS School for Business & Society

The EACB is pleased to announce the launch of a new publication entitled “European co-operative banks in 2016: a concise assessment” by Tias School for Business and Society at Tilburg University. The publication reviews developments in the overall performance of...

30 October 2017

EACB Studies

Cooperative banks: The strength of impact factors on the cooperative value orientation and their effects on the behavior of cooperative members

This dissertation describes a study about the factors that influence the cooperative value orientation of the Board of Directors, Supervisory Board, Member Council and members of local cooperative banks.

16 October 2017

External Studies

Cooperative Identity and Growth. Proceedings of ICCS 2016 in Luzern

This book includes the current scientific discussion of the International Co-operative Conference in Luzern IGT/ICCS2016.

20 September 2017

External Studies

5th EACB Award for Young Researchers on Coop Banks

5th EACB Award for Young Researchers on Coop Banks

28 March 2017

Awarded papers of young researchers

Spillovers of Banking Regulation: The Effect of the German Bank Levy on the Lending Rates of Regional Banks and their Local Competitors - U. HASKAMP

Mr. Haskamp won the 2nd price at the EACB Award for young researchers and received his price at the occasion of the 7th EACB Convention on Co-operative Banks on the 28th of March 2017.

28 March 2017

External Studies

An analysis of Italian banks’ risky attitude through alternative classification. - CATTURANI-DALPIAZ

Ivana and Erika won the 1st prize at the EACB Award for young researchers on Co-operative Banks 2017. They received their prize at the occasion of the 7th Convention on Co-operative Banks on the 28th March 2017 in Brussels.

28 March 2017

External Studies