Objectives The paper’s first goal is to track the behavior, financial structure and corporate governance schemes of the European banks before, during and after the crises of 2001 and 2008, the regulatory initiatives that followed. The second goal is to determine the status of the sector in...

ObjectivesThe paper's first goal is to track the behavior, financial structure and corporate governance schemes of the European banks before, during and after the crises of 2001 and 2008, the regulatory initiatives that followed. The second goal is to determine the status of the sector in Europe...

The crises of 2002 and 2008 have raised the issue of banking sector's ranking system efficiency. The CRAs are crucial for the modern financial market. The impact that the ratings have is indisputable. The paper is seeking to find the factors that affect the ratings and to create a prediction...

The crises of 2002 and 2008 have raised the issue of banking sector's ability to absorb the effects of the crises. The inactivity of banks may be the result of a number of events, such as merger & acquisition (M&A), liquidation, default-bankruptcy, etc. Bankruptcy has been found to be a...

Many scholars have linked Corporate Governance (CG) and performance or CG, capital structure of banks or market structure. The decision to use the capital market or debt in order to obtain the necessary capital to finance firms' operations is a critical factor for the formulation of corporate...

Purpose – The paper will addresses the issue of inactivity and will try to detect its causes using econometric models. The Banking sector of Europe has been under transformation or restructuring for almost half a century.Design/methodology/approach – Probit models and descriptive statistics...