The latest scholarly developments in research on banking, financial markets, and the recent financial crisis. This selection of papers were presented at the Wolpertinger Conference held in Valletta, Malta, 2012 and provide insights into bank performance, banking risk, securitisation, bank stability, sovereign debt and derivatives.

1. On the Relationship between Bank Business Models and Financial Stability: Evidence from the Financial Crisis in OECD Countries; Laura Chiaramonte, Federica Poli and Marco Oriani 2. Cooperative Banking in Poland: A Post-Crisis Record of Stability and Efficiency; Ewa Miklaszewska and Krzysztof Kil 3. Credit Development, Quality Deterioration and Intermediation Model: Does Bank Size Matter?: Evidence from Italy during the Recent Financial Crisis; Franco Tutino, Concetta Colasimone and Giorgio Carlo Brugnoni 4. Credit Supply and the Rise in Sovereign Debt Risk in the Eurozone; Pierluigi Morelli, Giovanni B. Pittaluga and Elena Seghezza 5. Credit Guarantee Institutions, Performance and Risk Analysis: An Experimental Scoring; Paola Leone, Ida C. Panetta and Pasqualina Porretta 6. The Role of Trade Credit and the Cost of Capital; Ted Lindblom and Gert Sandahl 7. Accounting for the Level of Success of Firms in Achieving their Objectives for Using Derivatives; Frank Bezzina, Simon Grima and Joseph Falzon 8. The Management of Foreign Exchange Exposures; Göran Bergendahl and Stefan Sjögren 9. Risk Management and Governance in Dutch Pension Funds; Leo Van Eerden 10. A New Risk Adjusted Performance Approach for Measuring Securities Exchanges' Value; Maurizio Polato and Josanco Floreani 11. Does Private Equity Investment Positively Impact on Firm Profitability and on the Growth of the Target Company?; Giusy Chesini and Elisa Giaretta ?