The purpose of this study is to test various theses on the banking industry's ability to help launch Internet-based startups in Italy and to identify the factors that facilitate Internet startup founders' access to the bank loan market.First, three different views on the functioning of the loan...

The attention of scholars and policy makers is shifting from full privatization to accompanying policies and alternative measures as a means to improve the efficiency of public services. This paper focuses on three restructuring measures: partial privatization (without transfer of control...