disintegration. I examine the determinants that explain the use of credit derivatives by banks in the lending business. Transaction …

implementation of the standard by less significant banks and secondly, it highlights methodological choices or practices that may not …

and the quality of loans to Italian firms. This paper proposes a new definition of local banks, whose main advantage …, compared with the traditional classifications employed in the literature, is that of classifying medium-sized and small banks … according to the number and size of the markets in which they operate, regardless of the banks’ institutional category and size …