The financial crisis that started in August 2007 has led to a worsening in the conditions of credit supply to customers. Since the second half of 2008, several measures have been adopted in order to sustain access to credit for both firms and households, such as debt moratoria, provisions of...

Il presente studio esamina l'impatto dei fattori ESG-Environment, Social and Governance sui modelli creditizi delle banche italiane e sulla domanda di mutui delle famiglie nelle diverse macro-regioni del paese dal 2009 al 2022. La transizione verso pratiche di finanza sostenibile è analizzata...

In the light of the recent financial market turmoil, this paper focuses on liquidity risk management from the point of view of both supervisory authorities and large financial institutions. This research aims at pointing out the main differences between national regulations and supervisory...

Co-operative banks are an important reality of the credit system and they are spread in Italy and in Europe. These banks are a category different from other banks, as are characterized by a legal form which has some very specific characteristics. These banks may contribute to the development of...

Moratoria and loans subject to public guarantee schemes have been two fundamental measures to reduce the negative impact on the economy of the Covid-19 crisis. This paper, after showing the use of these aids in European countries, proposes an analysis aimed at identifying the determinants of the...

Risky investment projects make the coordination among small, uninformed investors hard to achieve, and generate inefficient low levels of investment. Several authors have pointed out the benefits to an economy from multiple avenues of financial intermediation. This paper explains endogenously...

In 2007 the new framework for capital adequacy of banks (Basel 2), defined in 2004 by the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision, will replace the 1988 Accord (Basel 1) in all major countries. In the last years the Committee has carried out several impact studies in order to simulate the...

Italian Abstract: Presentiamo un modello stocastico multivariato, per sviluppare stress test finalizzati a valutare l'adeguatezza patrimoniale delle banche e il loro grado di fragilità finanziaria. L'articolo fornisce una descrizione teorica del metodo e delle caratteristiche essenziali del...

English Abstract: The paper, based on the observation that, in the context of the European Union, a legal framework has been created which has been progressively stratified into multiple rules, addresses, first of all, the main aspects of recent developments in European financial regulation,...

English Abstract: The paper aims to evaluate the quality of the corporate governance information published by Italian listed banks in the period 2010-2012. The results may interest banks, regulators and supervisors to highlight possible areas of improvement. It can also represent a starting...