The aim of the paper is to study empirically the rent dissipation hypothesis in the case of Italy before the creation of the National Bank of Italy in 1893. The major bank of the state of Italy – the Banca Nazionale Sarda (BNS) – experienced over the period 1866-1893 a decrease in its...

The aim of the paper is to examine the hypothesis of rent dissipation in the case of the Italian banking system during the suspension of gold convertibility. The major bank of the new born state of Italy – the Banca Nazionale nel regno d’Italia – experienced over the period 1866-1881 a...

The subprime crisis triggered a series of bankruptcies and bank runs at a level never experienced since the Great Depression. The banking environment radically changed since the 1930's, in particular the development of information technology decreases considerably the cost of information....

La période 1861-1896 est particulièrement mouvementée en Italie relativement à l'évolution du système financier, avec la sortie de l'étalon or (1866), les successions des régimes rélementaires des banques d'émission (1861-66, 1866-74, 1874-81, 1881-93), les crises boursières (1872-73,...