In the context of macroeconomic uncertainty problems existing on international markets, expanding the banking system leads to amplification interferences of a broad spectrum of risks. This article delineates the recent area of researches interest in the domain of credit risk management in banking.

In this article, we used a stochastic frontier model to estimate the cost efficiency of cooperative banks and savings banks from nine countries over the period 2005 to 2011. In addition, we analyzed the influence of certain variables that quantify the risk and performance of cooperative banks...

In this paper we analyse the determination of cost efficiency in a sample of Italian small banks located in different geographical areas and including two great institutional categories: cooperative banks (CB’s) and other banks. We highlight the effect of environmental factors (asset quality,...

This paper analyzes the effects of political presence in the boards of directors of cooperative banks. We refer our analysis to all politicians (almost 160.000) belonging to a political body in Italy. Overall, our dataset contains 1.858 board members referring to 127 cooperative banks. Results...

In a market economy, tradition, stability and performance of cooperative banks, namely science and art of leadership, management, organization and their administration become major facets in promoting and improving cooperative banks, at the microeconomic level, to which we provide a coherent set...

This paper intends to use a conceptual paradigm to discuss the ambiguity of corporate governance while issuing shares to maintain their capital adequacy for European cooperative banks. It thus provides theoretical evidence for the arbitrage between stakeholder and shareholder control for these...