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N° 1 January 2014

N° 1 January 2014

Banks and local development in Italy. Eight local systems in the crisis and beyond Giuseppe De Rita A14, G01, G21, H12 Italy cannot be divided mechanically in two areas, an industrialized North and Center and a lagging South. A new ABI-Censis research traces eight segments ...

Personal savings in Italy, channeling resources for growth Francesca Bartoli, Marcello Calabrò, Roberto Larotonda, Laura Marzorati, Zeno Rotondi E21, G11 Despite the decline during the crisis, Italian households savings rate is in line with major European countries and higher than Us and Uk. Conservative por...

Territorial exclusivity and credit cycle in the Italian subsidiary banks Simone Rossi G01, G21, G34 The reorganization of branch networks recently undertaken by Italian banking groups has led many subsidiary banks to operate in territories where the paren...

Lending organization in Italian banks Silvia Del Prete, Marcello Pagnini, Paola Rossi, Valerio Vacca G21, L15 This paper analyses how banks organize their lending activity in two surveys carried out in 2006 and in 2009. During this period, the use of rating and sco...

Pre-insolvency agreements and banks’ responsibility Alfonso Castiello D’antonio G21, G28, G33 The legislative changes introduced in the Italian pre-insolvency law for corporate crisis management provide the opportunity to reconsider the question rel...

Relationship banking: new evidence from small business credit in Italy Irma Malafronte, Stefano Monferrà, Claudio Porzio, Gabriele Sampagnaro G01, G21 This paper aims to investigate the relationship between banking competition and credit availability for a large sample of Italian firms. The main results s...

The new Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive Andrea Meiani, Luigi Rizzi, David Sabatini G23, G28 The Aifmd Directive aims to create a comprehensive regulatory and supervisory framework for the alternative fund industry in the European Union. It will he...