Research
Publications
Corporate Bankruptcy and Banking Deregulation: the Effect of Financial Leverage
(with Lara Cathcart, Alfonso Dufour, and Simone Varotto)
Journal of Banking and Finance, 2024
Coverage: Worldbank - All About Finance
Network vs Integrated Organizational Structure of Cooperative Banks: Evidence on the Italian Reform
(with Elena Beccalli and Andrea Viola)
International Review of Financial Analysis, 2023
(with Renato Simões Gaspar, Thomas Hone, and André Zuanazzi Dornelles)
The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, 2021
Economies or Diseconomies of Scope in the EU Banking Industry?
(with Elena Beccalli)
European Financial Management, 2020
The Differential Impact of Leverage on the Default Risk of Small and Large Firms
(with Lara Cathcart, Alfonso Dufour, and Simone Varotto)
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2020
Awards: Best Paper Award – Henley Business School Doctoral Conference (2017)
Books
Cooperazione di Credito: Modelli Organizzativi e Ruolo della Prossimità
(with Elena Beccalli and Andrea Viola)
Publisher: Vita & Pensiero, 2023
Book Chapters
Economies of Scope in the EU Banking Industry
(with Elena Beccalli)
Book: Corporate Governance in Banking and Investor Protection. From Theory to Practice
Publisher: Springer, 2018
Editors: B. D. Diaz, S. O. Idowu, and P. Molyneux
Non–Refereed Publications
Economie di Scopo: un’Analisi del Settore Bancario Italiano ed Europeo
(with Elena Beccalli)
Osservatorio Monetario, 2017
Working Papers
The Impact of Local Banking Market Structures on Firms’ Access to Credit During Digital Transformation
(with Elena Beccalli and Andrea Viola)
Rain or Shine, Default Risks Align: Exploring the Climate-Default Nexus in Small and Micro Firm
(with Lara Cathcart, Zhenghong Ding, Alfonso Dufour, and Simone Varotto)
The Impact of Global Warming on Small and Micro European Firms
(with Lara Cathcart, Zhenghong Ding, Alfonso Dufour, and Simone Varotto)
The Effect of Bank Supervision on Bank Boards
(with Carlo Chiarella and Pedro J. Cuadros-Solas)
Blue, Red, and the Effect on Green
(with Lara Cathcart and Pedro J. Cuadros-Solas)