Less is more? Some critical issues in bank branches rationalization

Mariarosa Borroni and Simone Rossi
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Mariarosa Borroni: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza
Simone Rossi: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza

BANCARIA, 2014, vol. 10, 15-25

Abstract: Twenty years after the liberalization of the opening of bank branches, Italy is widely considered an «over-branched» country. The advent of the financial crisis, that has led to a dramatic erosion of banks profitability, has placed in the forefront of the Italian bankers' agenda the rationalization of branch networks. Our work aims to shed light on two critical aspects of the on-going processes: on the one hand we examine in greater detail the regional disparities that exist today in Italy in the access to financial services and, prospectively, on the other we try to give evidence to problems and advantages of the restructuring of branch networks

JEL-codes: G21 L10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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