Credit expansion, leverage, and banking distress: the puzzle of interwar Italy
This study analyses the relationship between lending growth, leverage, and distress at the individual bank level for interwar Italy, which experienced remarkable credit expansion in the 1920s. Novel data from archival research based on banking supervision classified documents reveals a large, albeit...
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Oxford University Press
2023
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