The cooperative credit system in Europe has been affected to a lesser extent by the crisis than other banks: cooperative banks have maintained a good quality of loans and a low pro-cyclicality of credit supply. The paper aims to investigate, in the years 2007-2009, the influence of some features...

The variability of cash flows of Real Estate investments is affected by specific characteristic of each investment and by the choices for the portfolio composition and for the debt structure. The Italian Real Estate funds could not be evaluated with the same approaches used for other...