The current world wide economy met deep changes, especially in the last decades, changes which had major effects over business area. These determined the adoption of some decisions, at the level of main actors of economical life, which allow them to resist at new challenges. In this way,...

In practice, at the scale of world economy, reciprocal exchange activities between operators, takes place within an economic-legal determined framework. With regards to the international relationship, the economic and legal framework in the present context of the globalization of the world...

The request for appropriate financial and accounting information in terms of quality is marked by the agency and governance problems which were delineated and commented while trying to find feasible solutions. The paper analyze not only the convergence phenomenon within the managerial...

When granting credit, banks depend on reliable information about the creditworthiness and risk structure of potential borrowers. This information is typically gathered by national credit bureaus. Nationally established banks depend on information from credit bureaus more than ever, particularly...

The crisis did not affect the ability of Italian banks to maintain the employment and professional level, with a growing female presence. In terms of international competitiveness, the labour cost structure remains a weak point, with a cost-income ratio above the European average.Among the...

We build a simple model in which corporate governance may allow for institutions acting as commitment devices (e.g., the introduction of independent and minority members in the board). The model predicts that the incentive to adopt an institution — letting the general interest of shareholders...

During the past decade all industrial countries attracted sizeable inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), excluding Italy and Japan: this fact has been interpreted as evidencing a deterioration in Italy�s structural competitiveness. This paper presents the results of a survey conducted...

In the last decade the banks established in the Italian Mezzogiorno have reduced their cost-income ratios and improved their ability to screen customers, thus increasing their profitability. They have also widened the range of services they provide to customers. The spread between the cost of...

Bank takeovers result on average in little improvements in performance. This may be due to conflicting driving forces behind them; however these have seldom been studied. We study directly the motivations for bank acquisitions by analyzing the prices paid for them, under the assumption that...

We study whether local economic conditions in different areas have an impact on the magnitude and direction of the concentration process of a banking industry. By using probit and count data (ZIP) models to study the consolidation of the Italian banking sector in the second half of the 1990s, we...