Federico Beltrame is Lecturer in Banking and Finance
in the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Udine, Italy. He
holds a PhD in Business Science from the same University. His main research
interests are related to SMEs’ cost of capital, banks’ capital structure and
Mutual Guarantee Credit Institutions.
Daniele Previtali is post-doc fellow and lecturer at
Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. He holds a Ph.D. in Banking and Finance
from University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy. In 2012, he was a visiting PhD
candidate at Stern School of Business, New York, USA. His main research
interests concern banks valuation, banks’ capital structure and innovation.