After the crisis and recent State interventions, the private nature of banks and their role in terms of public interest has been strongly questioned. In the new scenario, is there a scope for public banks? And what should be the regulatory framework to ensure that their strategy and management...

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....

Credit risk exposure evaluation is driven by the quality of the information available on the debtors and customers with multiple lending exposures, which could be evaluated differently by different lenders. The existence of an information asymmetry among lenders can be mitigated using private...

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 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 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 examine the relevance of cross-border activity in the European banking sector, evaluating the role of differences in regulation to explain the level of interest in entering foreign markets. Design/methodology/approach: The sample considers all banks in the European...