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I rischi finanziari nei sistemi di pagamento interbancari
Russo, Daniela (contributor) - 1992
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Italian nonfinancial firms and derivatives
Graziano, Mariano - Banca d'Italia - 2012
derivatives bank-firm relationship is more concentrated than in the loan relationship. …
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The Political Economy of Investor Protection
Tommasino, Pietro - Banca d'Italia - 2006
Why do some countries suffer from backward financial institutions and weak corporate governance rules? We show that, even if, overall, the economy would benefit corporate governance reforms, not all the agents would stand to gain from the improvement. In particular, entrepreneurs and firms that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005609341
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Managerial incentives, financial constraints and ownership concentration
Protopapa, Marco - Banca d'Italia - 2011
This work investigates the role of equity ownership for the purpose of committing the management to the pursuit of shareholder value in the presence of separation between ownership and control. By rooting the conflicts of interests between managers and shareholders upon the control of internal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008917792
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Financial innovation oversight: a policy framework
Carlo, Gola; Antonio, Ilari - Banca d'Italia - 2013
This paper proposes a policy framework for intercepting, monitoring and containing the unintended harmful effects of financial innovation. The current approach, adopted by several authorities, makes extensive use of the tools of transparency and disclosure, mainly for consumer protection. It has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099606
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Women on corporate boards in Italy
Bianco, Magda; Ciavarella, Angela; Signoretti, Rossella - Banca d'Italia - 2013
We examine the presence of women in Italian corporate boards before the introduction of Law 120/2012. We consider all directors of publicly-traded firms in 2008-10 and investigate the potential determinants of having boards with gender-diverse representation and the correlation between female...
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Women on Italian bank boards: are they �gold dust�?
Prete, Silvia Del; Stefani, Maria Lucia - Banca d'Italia - 2013
Italy ranks among EU countries with the fewest women on bank boards. Using a rich dataset on Italian banks that … combines individual data on bank governance with different measures of performance and risk, this paper analyses the …), other individual characteristics and bank features being equal. Moreover, results show that the number of women at the top …
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Efficiency vs. agency motivations for bank takeovers: some empirical evidence
Vincenzo, Alessio De; Doria, Claudio; Salleo, Carmelo - Banca d'Italia - 2006
Bank takeovers result on average in little improvements in performance. This may be due to conflicting driving forces … behind them; however these have seldom been studied. We study directly the motivations for bank acquisitions by analyzing the …
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The effects of Basel 2 on Italian banks: results of the 5th quantitative simulation
Cannata, Francesco - Banca d'Italia - 2006
In 2007 the new framework for capital adequacy of banks (Basel 2), defined in 2004 by the Basel Committee for Banking … main results of the last survey (Fifth Quantitative Impact Study, QIS5) for the Italian banks included in the sample. The … the advanced methodologies, decrease with respect to the current regime; for medium-sized banks the capital requirements …
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