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 the paper is to examine the impact of derivatives usage on bank performance. Four derivatives are used: forward, futures, options, and swaps. The bank performance is measured by daily stock returns during the period 2003-2009. The sample is composed of 74 banks from both emerging...

The major objective of this study is to inspect the differences in the effect of derivatives on the stability between banks from emerging countries and those from recently developed countries. According to the repercussions of the recent financial crisis, we divide the whole period into normal...