This paper tests the role of different banks� liquidity funding structures in explaining the bank failures that …

According to some, the commercial bank is anachronistic and in a state of terminal decline. The evidence, however is …

By identifying the possibility of imposing a credible threat of liquidation as the key role of informed (bank) finance … circumstances under which a mixture of informed and uninformed finance is optimal and explains why bank debt is typically secured …

This paper investigates how bank profitability is affected by corporate income tax (CIT) using aggregate data on the … bank is able to shift its tax-burden onto its borrowers, depositors, and purchasers of fee-generating services. It turns …

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 …