Bank Performance, Risk and Firm Financing

1. Introduction
Philip Molyneux

2. Bank Size, Market Power and Financial Stability
Joaquín Maudos, Juan Fernández Guevara

3. Bank Risk and Analysts’ Forecasts
Mario Anolli, Elena Beccalli

4. Foreign Banks in Central Eastern Europe: Impact of Foreign Governance on Bank Performance
Ewa Miklaszewska, Katarzyna Mikolajczyk

5. Financial Crisis and Bank Profitability
Ted Lindblom, Magnus Olsson, Magnus Willesson

6. Asset-Backed Securitization and Financial Stability: The Downgrading Delay Effect
Mario Torre, Fabiomassimo Mango

7. A Revenue-Based Frontier Measure of Banking Competition
Santiago Carbó-Valverde, David Humphrey, Francisco Rodríguez Fernández

8. Regulation and Bank Performance in Europe
Georgios E. Chortareas, Claudia Girardone, Alexia Ventouri

9. The Italian Popular Banks and Their Behaviour after the Recent Financial Crisis
Pierluigi Morelli, Elena Seghezza

10. Access to Equity for New, Innovative Companies in Italy
Luciana Canovi, Elisabetta Gualandri, Valeria Venturelli

11. Can R&D Expenditures Affect Firm Market Value? An Empirical Analysis of a Panel of European Listed Firms
Andi Duqi, Giuseppe Torluccio

12. Value Creation of Internationalization Strategies of Italian Medium-Sized Listed Firms
Ottorino Morresi, Alberto Pezzi

13. Managers’ Capital Structure Decisions — the Pecking Order Puzzle
Ted Lindblom, Gert Sandahl, Stefan Sjögren

Keywords: Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, International Economics, Banking, Risk Management, Business Finance, Accounting/Auditing