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 viewed as potential applicants for bank loans in the 2006-2008 period. The methodology is able to consider simultaneously all factors affecting...

The deep evolutions which the agricultural systems has been involved during the last few years have sped up an increasing attention from stakeholders and the policy maker towards the topic of the credit risk access. Whereas in the past the credit in agriculture has been regulated from "special...

Beyond dealing with the negative consequences of the economic crisis, the globalisation of the agricultural products market and the declining of direct payment by the new course that, most probably, will be undertake by the CAP, more attention should be addressed to competitiveness and...