The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional …

We use exogenous variation in the degree of restrictions to bank competition across Italian provinces to study both the … effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was more restricted the cost of credit was … increase in bad loans. In provinces where restrictions to bank competition were most severe, the proportion of bad loans after …

disentangle loan supply from loan demand shift in the bank lending channel' literature. The results, derived from a sample of … the literature for Italy, interest rates on shortterm lending of liquid and well-capitalized banks react less to a … in the pass-through on the interest rate on current accounts depends mainly on banks' liability structure. Bank's size is …

capital and trust (Banfield (1958), Putnam (1993)) across different parts of Italy, using microeconomic data on households and …

This paper examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy. It documents two sets of facts. This first … the wage bill in the South of Italy can be identified as a subsidy. Both the size of public employment and the level of …

implement a case-study on the response of banks in France, Germany, Italy and Spain to a monetary tightening. The episode we … transmission chain by analysing the response of bank loans to the monetary tightening. Our experiment provides evidence on the … not find evidence of a significant response of bank loans to the monetary tightening, which occurred during 1992, in any …

pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada …

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …