Description
Book SynopsisThis book aims to enrich the banking and finance literature by gathering insights in new research topics being undertaken in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. The book spans all the major research fields in finance and banking with a particular focus on corporate governance, sustainability and innovation.
The book brings together academics at a range of European universities and stems from research presented at the 2022 Annual Conference of the Wolpertinger Club. The first part focuses on the impact of banks’ corporate governance practice on their performance, including pay gaps as well as diversity and ESG policies. The second part examines how banks are conducting their green transition with topics including reputational risk, greenwashing, green bonds, and ESG scores. The final section of the book considers the role of digitalization and innovative technologies in creating unprecedented disruption in the banking sector.
This edited collection is valuable to those researching in finance, banking and business, as well as policymakers and operational decision makers at financial institutions.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- PART I: Corporate Governance. Chapter 2. Compensation Policy in Banking: The case of Tournament Incentives.- Chapter 3. The Effect of Board Diversity and ESG Engagement on Banks’ Profitability and Risk.- Chapter 4. ESG default risk mitigation effect: a time-sectorial analysis.- Chapter 5. Principles of the optimal government regulation in the financial market.- PART II: Sustainability and Green Finance. Chapter 6. Firm Pollution and Reputational Risk: Where Do We Stand?.- Chapter 7. Is all that glitters that “green”? An Empirical Investigation of the magnitude of greenwashing in banking and its determinants.- Chapter 8. Sovereign green bonds in the European Union. Are they effective in supporting the green transition? .- Chapter 9. The Impact of ESG Score and Controversy on Stock Performance.- PART III: Innovation.- Chapter 10.The Digitalization of the European Banking Industry: Some Evidence.- Chapter 11. The Relation between Patent Pledgeability and Credit Rationing.- Chapter 12. Increasing the predictive power of financial distress models – the case of the new alert system proposed by the Italian NCCAAE.
