, the European Union has engaged in an ambitious overhaul of banking regulation. One of its centerpieces, the 2013 Fourth … banks. We focus on the provisions that are aimed at reshaping bank boards' composition, functioning, and their members …' liabilities, and argue that they are unlikely to improve bank boards' effectiveness or prevent excessive risk-taking. We criticize …

This paper analyses banking governance by taking into account both company's interests and prudential regulation. The … intermediaries. This is the reason why this regulation is aimed to ensure the soundness of banks' activity and the transparency of …

In this paper, we discuss whether and how bank lobbying can lead to regulatory capture and have real consequences … through an overview of the motivations behind bank lobbying and of recent empirical evidence on the subject. Overall, the …

expectations for NPLs are found to be effective in reducing banks' NPLs. The phase-in of the policies can temporarily reduce bank …

We examine whether pre-crisis bank characteristics explain state support to European banks during the global financial … reflect bank characteristics at the core of the regulatory agenda. In particular, bank size and the related too …