A sound bank resolution regime is crucial for ensuring long term financial stability and reducing the potential public cost of possible future financial crises. The Eu crisis management framework provides arrangements for restructuring a credit institution, in order to ensure the continuity of...

Ethics, or its lack, has played a key role in the great crisis. Repeated failures, individual or systemic, have been too frequent and recurrent in recent years not to wonderwhether something in the prevailing model of ethics must indeed be changed. Benedetto XVI in the encyclical Caritas in...

Banks capitalization has assumed greater importance after the new minimum capital standards required by Basel 3 and 2011 Eba Recommendations.This question could overshadow other important issues, such as those referred to the strategic models banks should adopt towards firms and individuals

In this paper we consider the role of private equity for growth and restructuring processes, through the analysis of a comprehensive dataset of European going private deals during the period 1998-2007, for which we explore the post-transaction operating performance of companies gone private and...