English abstract. Employing structured financial planning to manage personal finances is associated with higher levels of financial well-being and increased resiliency to shocks. Therefore, it is important to understand the factors associated with the propensity to plan and what it is that...

Despite the importance that policy-makers acknowledge to financial education, little is known about the demand for financial literacy (especially among the least literate individuals). We here build on the social-psychological framework of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to study the...

The proportion of women in boardroom has traditionally been low around the world. Over the last decades, several jurisdictions have adopted legislative actions in order to trigger a tangible progress in female representation, also moving from the assumption that gender balanced boards result in...

This study analyses the factors influencing institutional ownership in the largest non-financial companies listed in five major European countries from 2010 to 2015. Consistently with previous empirical literature, both country-level and firm-level variables result to be relevant. As for country...

The present collective work gathers views on how behavioural finance, neuroscience, sociology, cognitive psychology and pedagogy may contribute to improve measurement of financial knowledge, elicitation of personal attitudes, targeting audiences and delivery of educational programmes. These...

This study explores the relationship between board diversity and firm performance for a sample of companies listed in Italy, France, Germany, Spain and United Kingdom. We consider different dimensions of diversity, both demographic (gender, age and nationality diversity) and cognitive or...

This paper investigates the relationship between the propensity to seek for professional advice, financial knowledge and overconfidence, as well as the determinants of financial knowledge and overconfidence for a representative sample of Italian financial decision makers. The demand for...

Institutional investors are often criticized for their insufficient "engagement" with listed companies. Actually, information and other transaction costs limit their capacity to actively monitor investee firms, and to engage with their management. A partial solution is offered by Proxy Advisors...

The huge increase of HFT activity in recent years has posed the crucial question of whether it is beneficial for financial markets to both researchers and regulators. Recent academic research has studied the impact of HFT on different measures of market quality, such as liquidity, transaction...