Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of macroeconomic condition and real estate price trend on the amount of residential loan. Design/methodology/approach: The paper using a sample of 16 European Countries for the time period 2007–2015 evaluates the impact of change in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study whether geographic and sector diversification allow for a significant reduction in the risk exposure of a portfolio of hotel investments in one of the major tourist markets, the Italian market. Design/methodology/approach – This paper evaluates...

Purpose – The overall performance of real estate funds can be ascribed to capital appreciation and/or income return. The Italian property funds market has grown significantly over the past few years; however, little is known about the key drivers of property fund performance. The purpose of...

Purpose: The paper aims to study the performance of crowdfunding REITs with respect to traditional REITs in order to evaluate the differences in the risk–return profile and their usefulness for a diversification strategy within the indirect real estate investments....

Purpose: The aim of the study is to provide evidence on the distress in the supply chain and its impact on the trade credit policy, firms’ performance and risk and their growth opportunities. Trade credit creates a strict relation between suppliers and customers that cannot be easily...

Purpose: This paper aims to collect data from a unique database provided by LendInvest and to study the key differences in the lending features for the two types of lending solutions. Findings: Peer-to-peer (P2P) loans are prevalently short-term financing solutions (bridge financing), and the...

Purpose: This paper aims to analyse the exposure at default (EAD) in the event of multiple banking relationships to understand the differences with respect to solo banking relationships and forecast the banks risk exposure. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses a unique database provided...

Purpose – The aim of the paper is to study the degree of independence of customers' portfolio concentration measure from the pricing policy adopted by rating agencies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper tests different measures of customers value (revenues or profits and customer...

Purpose This article aims to analyze the performance and risk of landmark building in the housing sector and to evaluate their usefulness for a diversification strategy. Design/methodology/approach After comparing summary statistics on the performance of landmark building with respect to other...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to compare the role of the sector and geographical features in explaining the performance of a hotel structure. Design methodology/approach – The paper constructs a measure of net profit for available room (GOPPAR) for a representative sample of Italian...