investors provided by debt write-ups could help bridge thegap between Portuguese banks' NPL bid prices and private equity firms …

spotting banks that failed (bad apples). This paper proposes that these market-based ratios could be used as a surveillance …

European banks. The paper discusses the consequences of shifting funding patterns and investor preferences and presents …

. The paper discusses the corporate governance of Italian banks, its regulatory framework, and the specific challenges … arising from the role played by foundations and large cooperatives. Although Italian banks have recently made progress in … of foundations when they are the controlling shareholders in banks; and (iv) facilitating the transformation of large …

-weighted assets (RWAs) across banks and jurisdictions and how this might undermine the Basel III capital adequacy framework. We … discuss the key drivers behind the differences in these calculations, drawing upon a sample of systemically important banks …

prolonged recession as well as structural factors that have held back NPL write-offs by banks. The paper discusses the …