Risky investment projects make the coordination among small, uninformed investors hard to achieve, and generate inefficient low levels of investment. Several authors have pointed out the benefits to an economy from multiple avenues of financial intermediation. This paper explains endogenously...

Italian Abstract: Il presente lavoro è volto ad analizzare le principali determinanti dell'evoluzione della catena del valore del rischio di credito nell'attività di intermediazione creditizia. Il paradigma dei costi di transazione, che sottende le decisioni aziendali di make or buy,...

In 2007 the new framework for capital adequacy of banks (Basel 2), defined in 2004 by the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision, will replace the 1988 Accord (Basel 1) in all major countries. In the last years the Committee has carried out several impact studies in order to simulate the...