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Raising Capital or Improving Risk Management and Efficiency?

Key Issues in the Evolution of Regulation and Supervision in European Banks

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Addresses capital constraints by regulatory and supervisory authorities for the soundness of the European banking system, highlighting critical issues
  • Examines the improvement of risk management and efficiency as the main driver for reinforcing bank resilience and survival
  • Considers critically the relevance of these factors to the solvency and survival of banks

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    • Fabiano Colombini
    Pages 1-9
  3. Risk Management and Banking Business in Europe

    • Fabiano Colombini
    Pages 11-41
  4. Banking Efficiency in Europe

    • Fabiano Colombini
    Pages 57-73
  5. Capital Constraints by Regulation in Europe

    • Paola Ferretti
    Pages 75-96
  6. Capital Constraints by Supervision in Europe

    • Fabiano Colombini
    Pages 97-106
  7. Banking Regulation and Supervision in Europe

    • Antonella Cappiello
    Pages 107-129
  8. Capital Raising in European Banks

    • Antonella Cappiello, Paola Ferretti
    Pages 155-174
  9. Banking Regulation and Supervision in the USA

    • Paola Ferretti
    Pages 175-188
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 213-218

About this book

This book analyses the raising of capital imposed by regulatory and  supervisory constraints for the soundness and survival of banks in Europe, highlighting critical issues. Accordingly, the text examines the improvement of risk management and efficiency operated by individual banks as the main driver for reinforcing bank resilience and survival. The investigation is carried out  essentially through study of risk management,   efficiency, capital constraints, bank regulation and supervision in Europe, monetary policy and economic growth in Europe, capital raising in European banks, bank regulation and supervision in the USA, raising of capital or improvement of risk management and efficiency as the final issue.


Raising capital by regulatory and supervisory constraints meets solvency requirements at a given time. In contrast, improving risk management and efficiency allows banks to create the best structural premises for reducing costs,increasing revenue and profits and capital level, contributing to the solvency and survival of banks.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Fabiano Colombini

About the editor

Fabiano Colombini is Full Professor of Economics of Financial Institutions and Markets at the University of Pisa, Italy. He is author of many books and many publications on scientific journals in Italian and in English.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Raising Capital or Improving Risk Management and Efficiency?

  • Book Subtitle: Key Issues in the Evolution of Regulation and Supervision in European Banks

  • Editors: Fabiano Colombini

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71749-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71748-7Published: 23 March 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10104-6Published: 25 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71749-4Published: 15 March 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 218

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Risk Management, Banking

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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