The paper deals with the adverse conditions faced by Italian banks after the first oil shock. The scene at that time was rapidly changing . The sudden increase of the cost of energy in a country almost fully dependent for its sources from abroad, caused a strong inflation and released a whole...

We examine the impact on a firm when it is exogenously forced to switch its bank relationship from one branch to another branch of the same bank. We show the effect depends directly on the relative balance between the hard accounting information provided to the bank by the firm, as part of the...

Spanish banks were late-comers to the industry's globalization process, several decades behind U.S., other European and Japanese banks, achieving full multinational presence until the mid 1990s.Their overseas expansion was simultaneous to two major European structural changes: a) the creation of...

Loans and Advance section of a bank is very important because the success of this department helps to increase its business. If this section does not properly work, the bank itself may become bankrupt. Bank makes loans and advances mostly to traders, businessmen, and industrialists. Although the...

Studies of intermediated arbitrage argue that bank balance sheets are an important consideration, yet little evidence exists on banks' positioning in this context. Using confidential supervisory data (covering $25 trillion in daily notional exposures) we examine banks' positions in connection...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of financial dynamic policy options in money, credit, efficiency and size on consumer prices. Soaring food prices have marked the geopolitical landscape of developing countries in the past few years. Design/methodology/approach - The...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of policy options in financial dynamics (of money, credit, efficiency and size) on consumer prices. Soaring food prices have marked the geopolitical landscape of African countries in the past decade. Design/methodology/approach - We...

The dominance of English common-law countries in prospects for financial development in the legal-origins debate has been debunked by recent findings. Using exchange rate regimes and economic/monetary integration oriented hypotheses, this paper proposes an "inflation uncertainty theory" in...