Supply Chain Finance is as a portfolio of financing and risk mitigation practices and techniques to optimize the management of the working capital and liquidity invested in supply chain processes and transactions. SCF techniques existing on the market can be divided into three categories:...

A sound bank resolution regime is crucial for ensuring long term financial stability and reducing the potential public cost of possible future financial crises. The Eu crisis management framework provides arrangements for restructuring a credit institution, in order to ensure the continuity of...

<i> Weather Derivatives: strumenti innovativi per la copertura del rischio climatico </i> (di Francesca Querci) - ABSTRACT: L’esigenza di proteggere i profitti aziendali dalla volatilità associata a condizioni climatiche indesiderate, ha dato vita ad uno dei segmenti più creativi del settore...

Our study shows that the ownership of private equity funds influences the investments' performances. Our analysis focuses on the universe of PE investments, made by Italian closed-end funds, from 1999 to 2005. We find that bank-owned funds are able to carry into effect a weaker monitoring of the...

This study demonstrates that the ownership of private equity (PE) funds influences investment performance. The analysis focuses on the universe of PE investments made by Italian closed-end funds from 1999 to 2005. We find that bank-owned funds generally engage in weaker monitoring of the firms...

The paper investigates the performances of Italian private equity industry, either at investment or fund level.The analysis considers all the investments which were realized by Italian closed-end funds, from 1999 to 2003. At investment level, the performance is positively correlated with the...