Performance and Efficiency of the Italian Banking System

Riccardo Ferretti, Marzia Torresetti and Paola Vezzani

Chapter 5 in The Italian Banking System, 2012, pp 67-96 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter describes the Italian banking system’s main performance figures between 1999 and 2010. This was a period of several international crises, which also had domestic impacts. The first crisis, in the late 1990s, was due to the market collapse in a number of Asian countries and Russia, followed by the failure of a leading investment fund, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM). The second crisis, during 2000–01, was triggered by the bursting of the dot.com bubble. Finally, the current financial crisis began in mid-2007 and caused a general recession across the economy, which is still struggling to recover even as of this writing, at the end of 2011, although conditions vary from country to country.

Keywords: Total Asset; Banking Sector; European Monetary Union; Banking Group; Financial Leverage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137291905_5

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