Bank Performance, Risk and Firm Financing (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)

This text comprises a selection of papers that provide state of the art insights into bank performance, risk and firm financing post crisis that were presented at the European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance Conference (otherwise known as the Wolpertinger Conference) held at Bangor University, Wales, 2010. This book provides insights into contemporary issues in banking research, post-crisis. It comprises a selection of state-of-the-art papers from the European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance Conference (otherwise known as the Wolpertinger Conference) held in September 2010. In particular, the book focuses on new approaches to investigating bank performance and banking sector risk and examines the implications for firm financing, in the wake of the financial crisis Cover......Page 1 Series......Page 2 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 List of Tables and Figures......Page 8 Notes on Contributors......Page 13 Introduction......Page 20 1 Bank Size, Market Power and Financial Stability......Page 26 2 Bank Risk and Analysts’ Forecasts......Page 51 3 Foreign Banks in Central Eastern Europe: Impact of Foreign Governance on Bank Performance......Page 74 4 Financial Crisis and Bank Profitability......Page 102 5 Asset- Backed Securitization and Financial Stability: The Downgrading Delay Effect......Page 125 6 A Revenue- Based Frontier Measure of Banking Competition......Page 154 7 Regulation and Bank Performance in Europe......Page 173 8 The Italian Popular Banks and Their Behaviour after the Recent Financial Crisis......Page 193 9 Access to Equity for New, Innovative Companies in Italy......Page 213 10 Can R&D Expenditures Affect Firm Market Value? An Empirical Analysis of a Panel of European Listed Firms......Page 234 11 Value Creation of Internationalization Strategies of Italian Medium- Sized Listed Firms......Page 261 12 Managers’ Capital Structure Decisions – the Pecking Order Puzzle......Page 292 Index......Page 308