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N° 1 January 2012

N° 1 January 2012

Basel standards, solution or cause of financial instability? Rainer Masera G01, G21, G28, G32 The Basel Agreements, designed to pursue financial stability, have been instead a cause of instability, revealing fundamental analytical and operational we...

Which banks after the crisis? From an unique business model towards a new banking plurality Marco Di Antonio G01, G21, G28 The current financial crisis was not something unexpected, a «black swan», but rather an event caused by human action and inaction, and therefore predictab...

The Banks and Italy, a long term relationship Giovanni Sabatini G21, N23, N24 The Italian Banking Association has realized a research project to celebrate 150 years of National Unification.This important anniversary has been the oppo...

Italy and the banks’ role from 1861 to 2011 Salvatore La Francesca G21, N23, N24 The Italian economic culture over the last 150 years has considered banks not merely as financial intermediaries, but as a key factor of economic developme...

From poverty to soundness: the long path of Italian banks Marco Onado G01, G21, N24 A new book investigates the relationship between banks and the Italian economy over the last 150 years.The analysis is focused on the economic and financia...

The moving balance between banking industry and State in Italian history Leandro Conte G01, N23, N24 The history of relations between the Italian banking industry and the State during the last 150 years from National Unification has affected the stability ...

The revision of IAS 39: which model? Carlo Calandrini G21, G28 The three buckets model developed in 2011 by IASB and FASB, which divides the loan portfolio in 3 parts linked to increasing levels of provisioning, is a c...

Unfair commercial practices Directive and banking issues Teresa Broggiato G21, G28, K41 In the consultations undertaken by the Eu Commission on the implementation and revision of the Commercial Practices Directive, the Italian Banking Associat...

Codes of conduct and unfair commercial practices Valeria Falce G21, K41 The legislative indications in terms of self-regulation have remained largely unheeded and typical features of the codes of conduct have not been sufficien...

Judicial protection and unfair commercial practices Piero Fattori K12, K41 A higher level of judicial protection in the field of unfair commercial practices can be achieved by a stronger harmonization of Eu rules and procedures, e...

Banking and Financial Ombudsman and unfair commercial practices Federico Ferro-Luzzi K12, K41 The discipline of unfair commercial practices is outside the competences of Banking and Financial Ombudsman, thereby implying the obligation of the parties...

Creditworthiness and scoring analysis of the Italian Smes using multiple informative sources during the financial crisis Marco Corazza, Stefania Funari, Riccardo Gusso C02, G20, G32 In this paper a particular multicriteria decision aid approach is used in order to evaluate the creditworthiness of a set of about 14,000 Italian firms...