Bank Funding Strategies

Fabrizio Crespi is a Researcher at the University of Cagliari and a Contract Professor at ALTIS (the Postgraduate School Business & Society of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan). After completing a PhD in "The economics of institutions and business systems", he has focused his academic career on financial innovation. His main research concerns asset-backed securitization, asset management products, asset allocation and financial planning, and innovative portfolio strategies. Danilo V. Mascia is a Research Fellow at the University of Cagliari (Italy) and a former Visiting Academic Research Fellow at Leeds University Business School (UK). After gaining his BSc and MSc in Economics in Sardinia, he moved to the University of Amsterdam, where he was awarded the title of MSc in Business Economics. He later received his PhD in Business Economics from the University of Cagliari, together with the title of Doctor Europaeus. His research interests are in the areas of banking, regulation, and financing of small and medium firms.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The bank funding strategies of European banks: a comparison.- Chapter 3: The funding of Italian banks: instruments and changes over time.- Chapter 4: Different types of bonds issued by Italian banks.- Chapter 5: The bail-in effect: how the cost of funding has changed after the introduction of the BRRD.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.