finance than their male counterparts. According to statistical evidence, female firms have difficulty in accessing bank … finance: on the demand side, they apply for bank loans less frequently, as they more often anticipate a rejection; on the …

is greater a) in banks belonging to the major banking groups, with larger and younger boards; and b) in banks that are …

means that, surprisingly, the association between stock prices and spreads of the banking sector does not seem to surge in …

the banking system. In both cases their deviation from free market orthodoxy was based on a careful reading of financial … conclusion that banking requires government regulation. …

Macro-stress testing studies often rely on rather short sample periods due to the limited availability of banking data …. They may fail to appropriately account for the cyclicality in the interaction between the banking system and macroeconomic … to model the interaction between the banking sector and the macroeconomy. Our identified-VAR analysis indicates that the …