In 2005, the President of the Bank of Italy blocked the cross-border acquisition of two Italian banks for ?prudential … strength of the supervisory review process of bank M&A. The main source of information to construct these indices is a …

period 1998-2005 and discusses the results from the perspective of corporate bank strategy. Methodologically the existing … concentration of the national financial sector have a considerable impact on a bank's financial performance. Both issues proved to …

In 2005, the President of the Bank of Italy blocked the cross-border acquisition of two Italian banks for prudential …

. Our analysis is based on weekly observations for the 858 white collar workers hired by a large Italian bank between …

survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager's local connections …, controlling for (observable and unobservable) bank and manager characteristics by exploiting longitudinal information on bank …-manager appointments. We measure the extent? of managers' local connections by the distance between the province of the bank's headquarters …

We examine the relationship between the number of bank relationships and firms’ performance, evaluating possible … listed and for which bank debt is a major source of financing. In the sample, 4 percent of the firms have a single bank … as the number of bank relationships increases, with a stronger relationship for small firms than for large firms. We also …