<em>Management Quality and Risk Preference as Determinants of Efficiency in the Italian Banking System</em> (by Luca Giordano, Antonio Lopes) - ABSTRACT: Italian banks are characterized by deep efficiency inequality across size, location, Cooperative Credit Banks, and Limited Companies. Moreover,...

The article provides an analysis of some features of Italian Credit System. In particular, it focuses on a comparison of efficiency - in terms of costs, revenues and profits - of banks in Northern and Southern Italy using the balance sheet data set ABI from 1994 to 1998. In addition, in order to...

The North-South problem is far from settled, and it is high time to look into the reasons why this dualism shows such extraordinary persistence. No longer having devaluation to fall back on, years have been wasted in the unsuccessful attempt to exorcise the spectre of decline with rhetoric about...

This article deal with the dualistic nature of the Italy System and its evolution from the 1950s to the present day, arguing that it went through a prolonged stage as essential leverage for the economy as a whole to achieve rapid development, and that as from the mid-1970s it progressively...

After a brief analysis of the debate held in 1947 at the Assemblea Costituente, this essay critically considers the main features of the recent reform of the Italian Constitution which introduces fiscal federalism. It is argued that the new text is coherent with the basic principles of the 1948...

This article deals with the restructuring process under way in the credit market of the ltalian Mezzogiorno. It briefly considers the features and the effects of the so called consolidation process which brought an end to southern banking autonomy. The case of the Banco di Napoli rescue is then...