Using a dataset including more than 6,000 Italian small firms over the period 2010-2012, we find an higher credit growth rate for companies that employ Ict in a more widespread and sophisticated way. This may be related to the improvement of the transparency of small businesses connected with...

The Social Disclosure (Sd), in general, expressed through corporate social reporting can sometimes be reflected only in a series of fulfillment. In this perspective, the research aims to verify, with reference to Cooperative Credit Banks (Bcc) in Italy, if the intensity of Sd is actually...

Regulation and tax burden are seriously affecting the profitability of Italian banks, already struck by the crisis. Nevertheless, Italian banks are an element of strength and a vital resource for the recovery and, as the country, are facing a great opportunity for carrying out the restructuring...

Italy must continue the work it has already begun in budgetary and structural reforms, and Italian banks must accompany this effort. They have been able to maintain financial assistance to solvent, creditworthy customers and businesses. Furthermore, banks must increase their capitalization,...

The creation of a Financial Stability Fund, issuing bonds secured by real and financial assets, would produce a reduction in interest payments on public debt and mitigate the link between bank and sovereign risks. Purchases of securities on the secondary market could also determine a reduction...

Despite some recent signs of stabilization, the 2012-2014 ABI Financial Outlook Report highlights that the global economic situation remains fragile. Domestically, Gdp will further decline in 2013 and it is expected to return to a very slow growth only in 2014. Bank’s profitability continues...

The development of a long lasting relationship between banks and firms requires greater cooperation between the two parties, which must be based on transparency, availability of the right quantitative and qualitative information, the correct and complete use of these information by banks, in...

Establishing a European Banking Union offers clear opportunities: to break bank-fiscal interactions, national supervisory silos and home biases, to reduce fragmentation and improve single market, to stabilize the euro. Nonetheless it involves also risks related to the crisis management...

The proposal for a Directive and the related impact study presented by Ec in 2012 have the purpose to reorganize the financial systems crisis regulation, with particular emphasis on bank recovery and resolution. The new harmonized rules identify three groups of measures relating to prevention,...

Regulation has an economic impact on banks causing high costs bothdirect and deriving from the use of resources and operating structures, undermining their competitiviness. Alternative solutions, equally effective, are needed, to avoid conflict between firms, regulators and supervisors