paper is to examine the patterns of the main items of bank’s balance sheets, such as deposits, capital and reserves, bonds …Building on a new dataset on Italian banks and other financial corporations from 1861 to 2011, the novelty of this … savings, State ownership of banks, and bank interest rates is also studied. …

Commercial banks increasingly use short-term wholesale funds to supplement traditional retail deposits. Existing … literature mainly points to the "bright side" of wholesale funding: sophisticated financiers can monitor banks, disciplining bad …

highlights the fact that investment in technical progress is an authentic type of competition which benefits the consumers rather …

We examine the trade-off between the benefits of allowing firms to cooperate in R&D and the corresponding increased …