Carlo Bellavite Pellegrini

The world is often shocked by economic, financial, environmental and health emergencies that require global responses. A holistic approach to reviewing development models is needed, one that does not give up healthy growth and avoids an unequal and unregulated capitalism. A unique and organic path can be found within the social doctrine of the Church...

The recent financial turmoil has stimulated a rich debate in banking and financial literature on the identification of systemic risk determinants and devices to forecast and prevent crises. This paper explores the contribution of corporate variables to systemic risk using the CoVaR approach (Adrian and Brunnermeier, 2016)...

May the history of economic thought be a useful device for addressing a sustainable path...

The possibility to choose between two alternative corporate governance systems (i. e. one-tier and two-tier board) was introduced in Italy by the Corporate Law Reform at the beginning of 2004. This reform, which provides for the adoption of a one- or a two-tier board for both listed and unlisted joint stock companies, has modified the traditional Italian corporate governance system based on a board of directors and an external audit committee, although the percentage of firms adopting the alternative systems is still low. This survey implements probit regressions in order to identify the determinants of the adoption of alternative corporate governance systems. Results provide evidence that corporations with better performances in terms of sales, such as corporations that are subject to control and coordination prefer to maintain a traditional system. Conversely, firms with ownership in the hands of a high proportion of individual shareholders prefer a one-tier model. Key words: Corporate governance, One tier and two tier board, Joint stock companies. JEL Classification: G34, K22, M42.