Frontier topics in banking : investigating new trends and recent developments in the financial industry

1. Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: the Role of Financial Studies -- 2. Risk and Pricing on the Italian Minibond Market -- 3. Exploring Factors Influencing the Success of Equity Crowdfunding Campaigns: Findings from Italy -- 4. From seeker side to investor side: gender dynamics in UK equity crowdfunding investments -- 5. Financial Inclusion: Trends and Determinants -- 6. Framing, Overconfidence and Regret in Italian Mortgage Banking Litigations -- 7. “Share This Pic!”: a Picture of the Adoption of Online Social Media by Italian Banks -- 8. Central Banks’ Commitment to Stakeholders: CSR in the Eurosystem: 2006-2016 -- 9. Bank’s asset quality review using debt service coverage ratio: An empirical investigation across European firms -- 10. Credit Risk Disclosure Practices in the Annual Financial Reporting of Large Italian Banks -- 11. The Impact of Recent Regulatory Reforms on Cross-Border Banking: a Study of the Nordic Markets -- 12. The effectiveness of the Belt and Road Initiative in Tackling China’s Economic Slowdown and its Financial Implications within a Policy Trilemma Context