term. For this purpose, 120 announcements of mergers that were registered in Italy during the period 1994-2006 among listed …, and the second focuses only on bank mergers. From the results obtained it would appear that, while the sub-sample of all …

Lindley, 1977), bank outputs are comprised of loans, the non-interest income and securities. Besides the controlling variables … Popolari banks. Third, the study suggests that cost efficiency tends to decrease as bank size increases. Finally, as regards … the role of the determinants of banks efficiency («what makes a bank efficient»), we find that there are positive …

decades by deep changes, mainly due to the new applicable bank legislation, to a progressive European integration, and the …

analysis to all politicians (almost 160.000) belonging to a political body in Italy. Overall, our dataset contains 1.858 board …

especially relevant to Italy, where the enterprises are highly dependent on the banking system for their financing needs …

Corporate relationship banking in Italy is investigated through an empirical analysis centered on seven banking groups …

-step procedure: we first estimate bank-level cost efficiency scores for a large sample of Italian banks in the period 1993-2013 by …

risk and performance of the bank; however, it is not possible from our data to define an optimal model of risk governance …

European comparisons for the 2000s show that Italy was among the EU countries where women were least represented in … bank boardrooms. Using a unique dataset on Italian banks over the period 1995-2010, this paper investigates the effects of … gender diversity in boards on bank riskiness and economic performance. Taking account of omitted variables and reverse …