Following deep banking crises in their early transition, Eastern European countries have opened up to foreign banks, which (mostly from Western Europe) have massively entered those markets during the last decade. Though Italian banks ventured into their Eastern Passage only in recent years, they...

Questo lavoro ricostruisce serie storiche delle banche, degli istituti di emissione, della Cassa Depositi e Prestiti e degli intermediari non bancari dal 1861 al 2011. Le statistiche si riferiscono alle principali voci dei bilanci bancari, alla circolazione monetaria, alla raccolta postale, ai...

Building on a new dataset on Italian banks and other financial corporations from 1861 to 2011, the novelty of this paper is to examine the patterns of the main items of bank's balance sheets, such as deposits, capital and reserves, bonds issued, bonds held in portfolio, and loans for a period of...

The availability of new harmonized data on bank interest rates allows a rigorous assessment to be made of cross-country price homogeneity/heterogeneity in euro area retail credit markets. Econometric analysis shows that the banking market is still highly segmented and that the degree of...