The current economic crisis is causing large impact on the behavior of financial markets and institutions. Crisis, Risk and Stability in Modern Banking presents an in-depth insight into key topics related to the behavior of financial institutions in the crisis, stressing areas of major research interest. It covers a selection of papers from the past European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance Conference (otherwise known as the Wolpertinger Conference) held at the University of Valencia, Spain in September 2011.This book analyses different subjects ranging from the analysis of the behavior of rating agencies, bank performance in the crisis, banking regulation and its impact on bank management, the implications of bank stability on economic growth, the impact of globalization on financial stability, or the importance of stock exchange mergers, as well as other diverse areas such as microinsurance and social lending.
DR. FERNANDEZ DE GUEVARA is Assistant Professor at the Universitat de València. His research interests are financial economics, banking and social capital. He has jointly published more than five books and several articles in Spanish and international journals such as the Journal of Banking and Finance, Regional Studies, Journal of International Money and Finance, and The Manchester School, among others. He has collaborated in more than twenty research projects for firms and institutions.DR PASTOR is an Associate Professor at the Universitat de València, specialising in banking and regional economics. He is the co-author of thirteen books and has published more than forty articles in academic journals (Annals of Regional Science, Applied Economic Letters, Applied Economics, Applied Financial Economics, Economics Letters, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Transport Economics, International Review of Applied Economics, Institutions and Money, Journal of International Financial Markets, Journal of Productivity Analysis, and the Journal of Transport and Statistics, to name a few.
MARTA DE LA CUESTA UNED, Madrid, Spain JOSANCO FLOREANI University of Udine, Italy PASQUALE LA GANGA Bank of Italy, Rome FRANCISCO JAVIER GARAYOA Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain ELISABETTA GUALANDRI Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy TED LINDBLOM University of Gothenburg, Sweden FABIOMASSIMO MANGO University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy PIERLUIGI MORELLI Centro Europa Ricerche, Italy LUIS PEDAUGA University of Granada, Spain GIOVANNI B. PITTALUGA Università di Genova, Italy MAURIZIO POLATO University of Udine, Italy CRISTINA RUZA - UNED, Madrid, Spain CARLOS SALVADOR Universitat de València, Spain ELENA SEGHEZZA Università di Genova, Italy MARIO LA TORRE University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy SANTIAGO CARBO VALVERDE University of Granada, Spain, and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago GIANFRANCO A. VENTO Regent's College, London & Guglielmo Marconi University, Rome MAGNUS WILLESSON Linnaeus University, Sweden
