Governance, performance and credit quality: the case of Italian cooperative banks

Candida Bussoli
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Candida Bussoli: Università LUM Jean Monnet

BANCARIA, 2013, vol. 06, 28-41

Abstract: The cooperative credit system in Europe has been affected to a lesser extent by the crisis than other banks: cooperative banks have maintained a good quality of loans and a low pro-cyclicality of credit supply. The paper aims to investigate, in the years 2007-2009, the influence of some features of governance on performance and loan quality, in a sample composed of 45 Italian cooperative banks.The main results show, on the one hand, the positive contribution that can be generated by the presence of directors with a prolonged stay in the board; on the other hand show conditions of inefficiency of the larger boards and the need to dial the latent conflict of interests between the different categories of stakeholders

JEL-codes: G21 G34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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