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...

<i> Weather Derivatives: strumenti innovativi per la copertura del rischio climatico </i> (di Francesca Querci) - ABSTRACT: L’esigenza di proteggere i profitti aziendali dalla volatilità associata a condizioni climatiche indesiderate, ha dato vita ad uno dei segmenti più creativi del settore...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a survey that aimed to analyse the state of organisational and operative evolution of the functions and activities overseeing customer satisfaction in Italian banks. Design/methodology/approach – The research was conducted by...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the drivers influencing the risk of default on mutual guaranteed loans. The authors aim to verify whether default is influenced by the specific business policies of mutual guarantee institutions (MGIs) and to recommend guidelines for...

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From the beginning of the global financial downturn, the observation of residential mortgage market drivers has been focused in investigating the role in triggering the world crisis. Today, we want to analyze how the residential mortgage market could support the upturn and, consequently, how it...

Many indicators have been developed at international level to evaluate the quality of corporate governance. In this paper, the fundamental elements and limitations of existing indicators are discussed. Among these indicators, particular attention has been focused on the Gim Index, an index...

This research analyzes the relevance of pricing models to the behaviour of banking service customers, in particular, how bank pricing models influence the acquisition and retention of retail customers.The survey is based on a dataset of 90,000 bank current account holders at an Italian...