Italy ranks among EU countries with the fewest women on bank boards. Using a rich dataset on Italian banks that … is greater a) in banks belonging to the major banking groups, with larger and younger boards; and b) in banks that are …

of data on banks’ balance sheets, central banks and money market funds; on interest rates on deposits and loans; on non …

enterprises, as captured by the assessment of credit standards provided by the banks participating in the Eurosystem Bank Lending … Survey (BLS banks). For Italy, we combine the information provided by the relatively small panel of large banking groups … participating in the Eurosystem survey with the replies obtained from the non-overlapping and wider group of banks participating in …

Brothers demise to help banks retain access to wholesale funding. We describe the evolution and the pattern of bond issuance … new market, namely the significant �tiering� of the spreads paid by banks at issuance, finding that they mainly …