Financial systems in troubled waters
Subtitle: information, strategies, and governance to enhance performances in risky times
By: edited by Alessandro Carretta and Gianluca Mattarocci
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415628792; 9780203100790
Subjects: Financial institutions; Corporate culture; Business cycles; Banks and banking
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Governance is not at issue, or is it?; title: Boards of directors in troubled waters : enhancing the survival chances of distressed firms / Gianpaolo Abatecola, Vincenzo Farina, and Niccolò Gordini; title: Can interlocking directorates be good? : insight from problem loans in Italian listed banks / Marina Brogi and Valeria Stefanelli; title: Corporate governance and bank performance in Italy / Candida Bussoli; title: Does governance structure affect insurance risk-taking? / Antonio Meles and Maria Grazia Starita; title: The advantages of board diversity : an empirical analysis of the Italian market / Paola Schwizer, Maria-Gaia Soana, and Doriana Cucinelli; title: New tasks of information in credit quality assessment; title: Can peer monitoring improve loans quality? : empirical evidence from Italian cooperative banks / Vittorio Boscia, Matteo Cotugno, and Valeria Stefanelli; title: Loan selection and access to contractual information / Massimo Caratelli and Ornella Ricci; title: The impact of discount rate choice in estimating the workout LGD for corporate and retail portfolios / Lucia Gibilaro And Gianluca Mattarocci; title: Does relationship lending alleviate the credit crunch? / Stefano Monferrà and Gabriele Sampagnaro; title: Credit quality and economic development in China / Loris Nadotti, Manuela Gallo, and Valeria Vannoni; title: Financial education online : does it work? / Gianni Nicolini; title: Competition and efficiency : do they still work in addressing performance? : too small to be compliant? : size and scale economies in the compliance cost structure of Italian banks / Simona Cosma, Gianfausto Salvadori, and Paola Schwizer; title: intellectual capital and bank Performance : key issues related to intellectual capital disclosure / Gimede Gigante and Daniele Previati; title: Discussing value relevance of earnings and book value : evidence from the Italian context / Alessandro Giosi, Emiliano Di Carlo, and Bianca Staglianò; title: Determinants of local banks' performance an overview / Elvira anna Graziano; title: Activity based costing in banking : reasons for the use and perceived usefulness by Italian banks / Alessandro Montrone and Antares Dachille; title: The relationship between corporate reputation and risk in financial intermediaries / Maria-Gaia Soana and Paola Schwizer; title: The evolution of competition in EU-15 banking market / Francesco Saverio Stentella Lopez.