What is the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the corporate governance practices of firms? In this paper, first, we discuss the impact of COVID-19, then analyse how corporate governance practises have been affected and conclude with recommendations of policies to be adapted by firms in principle...

The economic crisis provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic is soon expected to also hit the banking and financial sector, mainly through a massive increase of non-performing loans resulting from bank borrowers' inability to repay their debts. Regulators and supervisors have already put in place a...

This paper is meant to address the status of the Italian productive system in the wake of the most severe crisis economies are facing since WWII. In order to accomplish the latter task we rely on the combination of two high quality level dataset informing about so called firm behavioural traits:...