New Issues in Financial and Credit Markets

1. Introduction
Franco Fiordelisi, Philip Molyneux, Daniele Previati

Part I. Financial Crises

2. China’s Macro-policy and Regulatory Framework of the Financial Sector to be Tested by the Global Economic Slowdown
René W. H. Linden

3. Financial Turmoil and Asymmetric Information Theory: Evidence from the e-Mid Platform
Claudio Porzio, Francesca Battaglia, Antonio Meles, Maria Grazia Starita

4. The Impact of European Financial Integration on Economic Growth
Juan Fernández Guevara, Joaquín Maudos

5. Can Financial Supervision Enhance the Central Bank’s Independence?
Elena Seghezza, Giovanni B. Pittaluga

6. The Impact of a Housing Price Bubble on the Intensity of the Recent Credit Crunch: Evidence from Different Countries
José Manuel Pastor, Javier Quesada, Lorenzo Serrano

7. Inter-bank Market and Liquidity Distribution during the Great Financial Crisis: The e-MID Case
Gianfranco A. Vento, Pasquale Ganga

8. Quantitative Easing vs Credit Easing
Frans H. Brinkhuis

9. Financial Reforms, Competition, and Risk in Banking Markets
Barbara Casu, Alessandra Ferrari, Tianshu Zhao

Part II. The Lending Business: Markets and Instruments

10. The Driving Forces of Credit Brokers’ Diffusion in Italy: An Empirical Analysis
Federica Poli, Teodora Erika Uberti

11. Financial Constraints to Italian SME Growth: A Proposed Solution through VC and PE Financing
Vincenzo Capizzi, Renato Giovannini, Valerio Pesic

12. Transparency of Price Conditions in Consumer Credit: The Usage of the APR
Massimo Caratelli

Part III. Capital Market and Risk Management

13. Asset Management and Industry Portfolio Indices: Momentum and Reversal Returns
Mario Toscano, Giuseppe Torluccio

14. Duration Analysis: An Overview
Göran Bergendahl, Ted Lindblom

15. Biased or Unbiased Risk Tolerance in Financial Decision Making
Caterina Lucarelli, Gianni Brighetti

16. Banks’ Measurement of Operational Risk and the Effect on Regulatory Capital
Ted Lindblom, Magnus Willesson

Nyckelord: Finance, Banking, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Risk Management, Business Finance, Investments and Securities