A large number of studies (DeYoung et al., 2009) analyze merger outcomes in the financial industry, while other forms of business cooperation are still poorly investigated. Our paper examines results of strategic alliances and joint ventures in European and US banking over the period 1999 and...

We investigate the causal relationship between the efficiency of country’s judicial system and the quality of bank lending, using the contracts enforcement reforms that have been implemented in four European countries as a quasi-natural experiment. We find that strengthening of contract...

This paper contributes to the literature on bank risk with a cross-sectional analysis of the bank-specific determinants of risk using a new indicator calculated for a sample of 38 Italian banks in the period 2006-2012 and expressed as flow of the amount of new non- performing loans. The results...

ABI, through the European Banking Report, and Ubs have recently conducted a survey on the opportunities, risks and market trends of Italian banks for next three years addressed to top managers of 32 Italian banking groups and 34 international institutional investors.The responses of the 4 major...

By analysing the macro financial determinants of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 on 83 countries, we find that the probability of suffering the crisis in 2008 was larger for countries having higher levels of credit deposit ratio whereas it was lower for countries having higher levels of:...

We investigate the macro financial determinants of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 using data on 83 countries from the period 1998-2006. Our results show that the probability of suffering the crisis in 2008 was larger for countries having higher levels of credit deposit ratio whereas it...

We test whether relatively small US commercial banks that use traditional banking business models are more likely to survive during both good and bad economic climates. Our concept of bank survival is derived from Stigler (1958), and includes any bank that did not fail, was not acquired, and was...

We investigate the relationship between a bank's rating and its business model and hypothesize that relationship changed through the crisis. We use bank ratings by Fitch, Moody's and S&P's from 2006 to 2009 and proxy the business model via an index given by a banks' traditional income share in...

The relationship between economic activity and the banking sector has always been one of the central themes in both the academic and practitioners debates. In this work we present a methodological tool of macro stress tests, focused on Italy. We estimate an autoregressive model (Var) to assess...