Financial systems in troubled waters : information, strategies, and governance to enhance performances in risky times

Introduction -- Governance is not at issue, or is it? -- Boards of directors in troubled waters : enhancing the survival chances of distressed firms / Gianpaolo Abatecola, Vincenzo Farina, and Niccolò Gordini -- Can interlocking directorates be good? : insight from problem loans in Italian listed banks / Marina Brogi and Valeria Stefanelli -- Corporate governance and bank performance in Italy / Candida Bussoli -- Does governance structure affect insurance risk-taking? / Antonio Meles and Maria Grazia Starita -- The advantages of board diversity : an empirical analysis of the Italian market / Paola Schwizer, Maria-Gaia Soana, and Doriana Cucinelli -- New tasks of information in credit quality assessment -- Can peer monitoring improve loans quality? : empirical evidence from Italian cooperative banks / Vittorio Boscia, Matteo Cotugno, and Valeria Stefanelli -- Loan selection and access to contractual information / Massimo Caratelli and Ornella Ricci -- The impact of discount rate choice in estimating the workout LGD for corporate and retail portfolios / Lucia Gibilaro And Gianluca Mattarocci -- Does relationship lending alleviate the credit crunch? / Stefano Monferrà and Gabriele Sampagnaro -- Credit quality and economic development in China / Loris Nadotti, Manuela Gallo, and Valeria Vannoni -- Financial education online : does it work? / Gianni Nicolini -- Competition and efficiency : do they still work in addressing performance? : too small to be compliant? : size and scale economies in the compliance cost structure of Italian banks / Simona Cosma, Gianfausto Salvadori, and Paola Schwizer -- intellectual capital and bank Performance : key issues related to intellectual capital disclosure / Gimede Gigante and Daniele Previati -- Discussing value relevance of earnings and book value : evidence from the Italian context / Alessandro Giosi, Emiliano Di Carlo, and Bianca Staglianò -- Determinants of local banks' performance an overview / Elvira anna Graziano -- Activity based costing in banking : reasons for the use and perceived usefulness by Italian banks / Alessandro Montrone and Antares Dachille -- The relationship between corporate reputation and risk in financial intermediaries / Maria-Gaia Soana and Paola Schwizer -- The evolution of competition in EU-15 banking market / Francesco Saverio Stentella Lopez