The collapse of Italian economy has coincided with the global financial crisis to which derivatives are suspected to be responsible of its propagation. For this reason, this study aims to examine whether the use of derivatives affects the profitability of Italian banks during both the global...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the level of accounting risk that banks, in both emerging and recently developed countries, face by using derivative instruments. On the whole, results show that forwards negatively affect leverage risk, the use of swap contracts has negative effect on...

This current research tries to answer the widespread debate about the role of derivatives in propagating the last financial crisis. So, this work aims to examine the effect of derivatives on bank stability in emerging countries by using the bank stability index (BSI) as developed by Ghosh (2011)...