Cash-Holding and Debt Issuance, Francesca Campolongo (JRC, European Commission), Jessica Cariboni (JRC, European Commission), Issam Hallak (JRC, European Commission & KU Leuven) and Michela Rancan (JRC, European Commission)

Big Data Models of Bank Risk Contagion, Paola Cerchiello (Pavia University), Paolo Giudici (Pavia University) and Giancarlo Nicola (Pavia University)

Financing SMEs: Some Empirical Evidence in the Western Balkans and Turkey, Massimo Cingolani (European Investment Bank) and Ana Rosa Gonzalez-Martinez (Cambridge Econometrics)

The Changing International Network of Sovereign Debt and Financial Institutions, Mardi Dungey (University of Tasmania), John Harvey (University of Tasmania) and Vladimir Volkov (University of Tasmania)

Systemic Risk of Dual Banking Systems, Shatha Hashem (Pavia University), Paolo Giudici (Pavia University) and Pejman Abedifar (University of St. Andrews)

Hedge Fund Funding Risk, Sven Klingler (Copenhagen Business School)

Probability of Default with Default Correlations, Weiping Li (Southwest Jiaotong University & OSU)

Why Banks Want to Be Complex, Frank Hong Liu (University of Glasgow), Lars Norden (Getulio Vargas Foundation) and Fabrizio Spargoli (Erasmus University)

A Securitization-based Model of Shadow Banking with Surplus Extraction and Credit Risk Transfer, Patrizio Morganti (Tuscia University of Viterbo)

Banking Globalization, Local Lending and Labor Market Outcomes: Micro-level Evidence from Brazil, Felix Noth (Halle Institute for Economic Research & Otto von Guericke-University Magdeburg) and Matias Ossandon Busch (Halle Institute for Economic Research & Otto von Guericke-University Magdeburg)