How to subscribe

Subscriber Login

Forum Articles

Forum Articles

N° 7/8 July/August 2018 Does Business Model Instability Imperil Banks’ Soundness? Evidence from Europe Rym Ayadi, Giovanni Ferri, Valerio Pesic G2, G21, G28 In the years prior to the Great Financial Crisis, banking business metamorphosed from being the economy’s most regulated and traditional sector into one of...

N° 6 June 2018 The link between board diversity, competence and ... Rossella Locatelli, Cristiana Schena, Andrea Uselli, Alessandra Tanda G21, G34 This paper investigates the link between the board of directors’ characteristics and bank’s financial performance in a wide sample of Italian banks. The an...

N° 5 May 2018 Replication of credit ratings by a Perpetual-Debt Structural Model Gaia Barone G13 In this paper, we outline the general lines of a structural model that is based on the Leland model (1994), but differs from its assumptions about the tax ...

N° 4 April 2018 Evaluating banks’ solvency through a Merton-like approach Aldo Letizia G21, G28 For an effective market-discipline in the credit sector it is necessary that investors increase their capability of early detecting banks with sub-optimal ...

N° 3 March 2018 Diversification in banking Claudio Zara, Luca Cerrato G20, G21, M21 This paper investigates banking diversification in terms of business combinations which carry out customer frontend operations, also considering different ...

N° 2 February 2018 Households’ interest in financial use Simona Cosma, Alessandro Maria Peluso, Stefano Cosma, S. Cosma D12, G21 Real estate’s wealth financialization process represents a way to convert households’ real estate wealth into cash flows. These solutions of Home equity co...

N° 1 January 2018 Financial advisors and the role of investors’ trust Caterina Cruciani, Gloria Gardenal, Ugo Rigoni G11, G23 This study analyzes the fiduciary relationship between Financial advisors and their clients, using data from 1,209 questionnaires collected among Italian p...

N° 12 December 2017 Young adult attitudes toward finance: a focus group exploration Elisa Bocchialini, Beatrice Ronchini A22, D14, J16 Despite growing interest in youth financial literacy, their attitudes toward finance have not been directly explored and recognized so far. We suppose that...

N° 11 November 2017 Bank-specific and firm-specific determiners of credit supply Carmen Gallucci, Vincenzo Formisano, Michele Modina, Rosalia Santulli G21, G31 The present paper aims at investigating the bank-specific and firm-specific determiners of both short-term and long-term credit supply. It applies a hierar...

N° 10 October 2017 Sovereign rating: a comparison among different rating agencies Massimo Regalli, Maria Gaia Soana, Emanuele Testi G15, G18, G2, G20, G24 Our research compares sovereign ratings assigned by the American S&P, Fitch and Moody’s, and the most important Chinese credit rating agency, Dagong. Diffe...

Page 10/17