This paper analyses the financial and economic conditions of the companies in the portfolios of Italian private equity funds. Information from an ad hoc survey of Italian asset management companies, combined with accounting data for 2008 drawn from the Central Credit Register, is used to develop...

The paper analyses the main differences in the financial structure of Italian and European non financial corporations in the 2004-2007 period, that is during the years before the financial crisis. The research is based on individual balance sheets of Amadeus (Analyse Major Databases from...

This paper presents a survey of the literature on the determinants of inter-firm credit and on its implications for the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. Theoretical explanations for trade credit can be divided in two categories: a) theories based on real functions performed by trade...

Obiettivo del lavoro è verificare se, ed in quale misura, alcune norme fiscali introdotte nel periodo 1996 – 2006 (“Visco” Vs. “Tremonti”) abbiano determinato per le imprese un incentivo al finanziamento tramite ricorso all'indebitamento, ovvero tramite equity. Dopo una breve disamina...