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Debt restructuring and the role of lending technologies

Micucci, Giacinto; Rossi, Paola - Banca d'Italia - 2010

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The role of banks in corporate crises : the point of view of the Bank of Italy ; the code of conduct for banks and firms in crisis ; ABI Italian Bankers' Association, Rome, 7 June...

Desario, Vincenzo - 2000

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Managerial incentives, financial constraints and ownership concentration

Protopapa, Marco - Banca d'Italia - 2011

managers and shareholders upon the control of internal funds, a simple model allows to analyse the link between profit …

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Collective action clauses: how do they weigh on sovereigns?

Bardozzetti, Alfredo; Dottori, Davide - Banca d'Italia - 2013

We study the effects of the adoption of collective action clauses (CACs) on government bond yields by exploiting secondary market data on sovereigns quoted in international markets from March 2007 to April 2011. CACs are assessed security by security. Using a panel data approach, we find a...

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The transformation of the Italian financial system : Executive Management Seminar, Rome, 5 October 1998

Finocchiaro, Antonio - 1998

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New approaches to the international regulation of credit risk : 5th ABI Convention The Development and Management of Loan Portfolios, Cernobbio, 15 October 1999

Desario, Vincenzo - 1999

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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...

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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...

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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 ï¿½gold dustï¿½?

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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