2008, i.e. that a poor performance in secondary school increases the probability to choose Piemonte Orientale vs larger and … well established universities: the result underlines a positive evolution of this small university recruitment performance. …

This paper uses a new dataset to reassess the relationship between bank ownership and bank performance, providing … foreign-owned banks. The paper finds no strong correlation between ownership and performance for banks located in industrial … countries. Next, in order to test whether the differential in performance between public and private banks is driven by …