New Challenges for the Banking Industry: Searching for Balance Between Corporate Governance, Sustainability and Innovation

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.