Purpose: The paper aims to study the performance of crowdfunding REITs with respect to traditional REITs in order to evaluate the differences in the risk–return profile and their usefulness for a diversification strategy within the indirect real estate investments....

Purpose: This paper aims to analyse the exposure at default (EAD) in the event of multiple banking relationships to understand the differences with respect to solo banking relationships and forecast the banks risk exposure. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses a unique database provided...

Purpose: The aim of the study is to provide evidence on the distress in the supply chain and its impact on the trade credit policy, firms’ performance and risk and their growth opportunities. Trade credit creates a strict relation between suppliers and customers that cannot be easily...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the relevance of cross-border activity in the European banking sector, evaluating the role of differences in regulation to explain the level of interest in entering foreign markets. Design/methodology/approach: The sample considers all banks in the European...

Purpose This article aims to analyze the performance and risk of landmark building in the housing sector and to evaluate their usefulness for a diversification strategy. Design/methodology/approach After comparing summary statistics on the performance of landmark building with respect to other...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare banks specialised on real estate lending with the overall market in order to the test if they are more or less exposed to liquidity risk. Design/methodology/approach – Following the approach proposed by the Basel Committee in order to...

Purpose – The aim of the paper is to study the degree of independence of customers' portfolio concentration measure from the pricing policy adopted by rating agencies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper tests different measures of customers value (revenues or profits and customer...