Cryptocurrency or usury? Crime and alternative money laundering techniques

R Barone, D Masciandaro - European Journal of Law and Economics, 2019 - Springer
The article presents a novel dynamic setting to compare old—usury—and new—
cryptocurrency—money laundering techniques and uses it for calibration to shed light on …

All that Glitters is Not Gold! Could M&As Post‐Bank Reforms be Just a Tool for Balance Sheet Embellishment?

D Cucinelli, F Ielasi, S Zambelli - British Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates whether the surge of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) that occurred
in Italy after the enactment, in 2016, of a new reform of credit cooperative banks (CCBs) …

Usury vulnerability: measuring and modelling the phenomenon in Italy

S Stefanizzi, T Lysova - Quality & Quantity, 2024 - Springer
Usury has been predominantly studied as an economic or legal phenomenon and only
recently has gotten into the spotlight of sociological research. This article aims to contribute …

Money laundering and corruption: birds of a feather flock together

R Barone, D Masciandaro, F Schneider - 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper is the first to analyse the three-way relationship among money laundering, anti-
money-laundering efforts and corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of …

All that Glitters is not Gold! Are M&As Post-Bank Reforms Just a Tool for Financial Camouflage?

D Cucinelli, F Ielasi, S Zambelli - … M&As Post-Bank Reforms Just a …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
This study investigates whether the surge of mergers and acquisitions that occurred in Italy
after the enactment, in 2016, of a new reform of Credit Cooperative Banks (CCBs) ultimately …

Does “Diversity” Make the Difference? Moving Inside the Sample

M La Torre, M La Torre - Risk in Banking: Developing a Knowledge Risk …, 2020 - Springer
Business model based on proximity to the local community, direct relationships with
customers, mutuality, cooperation, in one word “diversity”. This chapter is aimed to provide …