Lending, Investments and the Financial Crisis

Lending, Investments and the Financial Crisis includes contemporary studies on how the financial crisis affected the banks’ ability to lend money as well as the emergence of alternative methods of firms’ financing (including crowdfunding, financing via firms’ networks and venture capital). The volume also addresses issues related to investment strategies of institutional investors in the light of the financial crisis. The focus is mainly on the European financial system (including Central and Eastern Europe), although attention is also devoted to the Chinese context. These chapters were originally presented as papers at the annual conference of the European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance – Wolpertinger 2014 – which was help in September 3-6, 2014 at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy.