In this paper a bank faces excess demand in the loan market, can sort loan applicants by an observable measure of quality, and faces a small but positive probability of default. The bank uses two policies to allocate credit: (i) tighten restrictions on loan quality; (ii) limit the number of...

The difficulties of bank lending to Italian firms create an urgent need for new finance from alternative channels. This is essential to catch the recovery in 2014. More resources should come from private equity and mezzanine finance. Good news arrive from small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)...

Stress tests have become an important component of the supervisory toolkit. However, the extent of disclosure of stress-test results remains controversial. We argue that while stress tests uncover unique information to outsiders — because banks operate in second--best environments with...

Share price determination is a contradictory task, affected by lots of factors. However some methods and techniques under different schools of thought have been developed for this purpose. Study reviews the important factors and philosophical developments on the subject. It discusses...

Economic value-added or EVA is a common metric that quantifies the value of the firm. However, recent studies that examine portfolio investment strategies using EVA suggest that portfolios formed with negative EVA earn relatively higher returns compared to some positive EVA firms. This study...

Las pequeñas y medianas empresas (PYMES) son las protagonistas incuestionables del tejido empresarial español. Los problemas de financiación de las pymes son tradicionales y se hacen todavía más agudos en tiempos de crisis. Como una nueva vía de financiación para las PYMES, se constituyó...

We propose a simple network–based methodology for ranking systemically important financial institutions. We view the risks of firms –including both the financial sector and the real economy– as a network with nodes representing the volatility shocks. The metric for the connections of the...

The paper looks at the characteristics of Italian non-financial firms that accessed the bond market for the first time between 2002 and 2013. The results of logit estimations indicate that first-time bond issuers are significantly larger and more frequently listed on the stock exchange than...

How do banks choose their debt maturity structure when credit markets are subject to information frictions? This paper proposes a model of equilibrium maturity choice with asymmetric information and endogenous roll-over risk. We show that in the presence of public signals about firms'...

Risk, finansal olarak yatırımcının bir varlıktan beklediği getirinin gerçekleşen getirisinden sapma olasılığı olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Risk kavramı firmadan ve sektörden kaynaklanan ve portföy çeşitlendirmesi ile yok edilebilen sistematik olmayan risk ile pazarın genel...