Frontier Topics in Banking: Investigating New Trends and Recent Developments in the Financial Indust

PART I - Overture

Chapter 1

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: the Role of Financial Studies

PART II - The Financing of SMEs

Chapter 2

Risk and Pricing on the Italian Minibond Market

Chapter 3

Exploring Factors Influencing the Success of Equity Crowdfunding Campaigns: Findings from Italy

Chapter 4

From seeker side to investor side: gender dynamics in UK equity crowdfunding investments

PART III - Banks and their Customers

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Framing, Overconfidence and Regret in Italian Mortgage Banking Litigations

Chapter 7

"Share This Pic!": a Picture of the Adoption of Online Social Media by Italian Banks

Chapter 8

Central Banks' Commitment to Stakeholders: CSR in the Eurosystem: 2006-2016

PART IV - Regulation and Bank Management

Chapter 9

Bank's asset quality review using debt service coverage ratio: An empirical investigation across European firms

Chapter 10

Credit Risk Disclosure Practices in the Annual Financial Reporting of Large Italian Banks

The Impact of Recent Regulatory Reforms on Cross-Border Banking: a Study of the Nordic Markets

Chapter 12

The effectiveness of the Belt and Road Initiative in Tackling China's Economic Slowdown and its Financial Implications within a Policy Trilemma Context