Governance, Regulation and Bank Stability

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Challenges for Banks and a New Regulatory Framework

   • Ted Lindblom, Stefan Sjögren, Magnus Willesson

   Pages 1-8

3. Leverage, System Risk and Financial System Health: How Do We Develop a Healthy Financial System?

   • Anjan V. Thakor

   Pages 9-19

4. Did Strong Boards Affect Bank Tail Risk During the Financial Crisis? Evidence from European Countries

   • Francesca Battaglia, Angela Gallo

   Pages 20-47

5. Corporate Governance of Banks and Financial Crisis: Can the Post-crisis Rules Make Banks Safer?

   • Gianfranco A. Vento, Pasquale La Ganga

   Pages 48-76

6. Predicting European Bank Distress: Evidence from the Recent Financial Crisis

   • Laura Chiaramonte, Federica Poli

   Pages 77-99

7. The Impact of Deregulation and Re-regulation on Bank Efficiency: Evidence from Asia

   • Bimei Deng, Barbara Casu, Alessandra Ferrari

   Pages 100-128

8. Small Banks in Post-crisis Regulatory Architecture: The Case of Cooperative Banks in Poland

   • Ewa Miklaszewska

   Pages 129-150

9. The Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Impact on the Intermediation Model of Italian Banks

   • Stefano Cosma, Elisabetta Gualandri

   Pages 151-180

10. Diversification Strategies and Performance in the Italian Banking System

    • Paola Brighi, Valeria Venturelli

    Pages 181-200

11. Intermediation Model, Bank Size and Lending to Customers: Is There a Significant Relationship? Evidence from Italy: 2008–2011

    • Franco Tutino, Concetta Colasimone, Giorgio Carlo Brugnoni, Luca Riccetti

    Pages 201-241

12. Good News, Bad News: A Proposal to Measure Banks’ Reputation using Twitter

    • Vincenzo Farina, Giampaolo Gabbi, Daniele Previati

    Pages 242-259

13. Back Matter

    Pages 261-269

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This book provides novel insight into the governance of banks and looks at regulatory measures for strengthening bank stability. It includes empirical studies on the relationship between the board structures of banks and their financial risk-taking and analyses the determinants of bank reputation and the future prospects of small banks.

• Corporate governance
• Bank regulation
• Risk
• Deleveraging
• Financial crisis
• Financial system stability
• Basel III
• Healthy banking
• bank
• banking
• corporate governance
• Governance

• University of Gothenburg, Sweden

  Ted Lindblom, Stefan Sjögren

• Linnaeus University, Sweden

  Magnus Willesson

Francesca Battaglia, University of Naples 'Parthenope', Italy Paola Brighi, University of Bologna, Italy Giorgio Carlo Brugnoni Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Barbara Casu, Cass Business School, City University London, UK Laura Chiaramonte, Catholic University of Milan, Italy Concetta Colasimone, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Stefano Cosma, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Bimei Deng, University of Reading, UK Vincenzo Farina, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy Alessandra Ferrari, University of Reading, UK Giampaolo Gabbi, University of Siena, Italy Angela Gallo, University of Salerno, Italy Elisabetta Gualandri, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Pasquale La Ganga, Bank of Italy Ewa Miklaszewska, Cracow University of Economics, Poland Federica Poli, Catholic University of Milan, Italy Daniele Previati, University of Rome III, Italy Luca Riccetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Anjan V. Thakor, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Franco Tutino, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Gianfranco Antonio Vento, Regent's College in London, UK Valeria Venturelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

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