Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Alessi, Matteo; Colli, Stefano Di - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
This paper uses data from a panel of more than 400 Italian banks for the period 2001 – 2012 to examine the main …,signalling) or non-discretionary (related to the business cycle). The results suggest that LLP in Italian banks is driven mainly by … local banks: since their loans are more collateralised, their behaviour is more strongly affected by supervisory activity …