Valuing Banks A New Corporate Finance Approach

This book aims to overcome the limitations the variations in bank-specifics impose by providing a bank-specific valuation theoretical framework and a new asset-side model. The book includes also a constructive comparison of equity and asset side methods. The authors present a novel framework entitled, the “Asset Mark-down Model”. This method incorporates an Adjusted Present Value model, which allows practitioners to identify the main value creation sources of a particular bank: from asset-based cash flow and the mark-down on deposits, to tax benefits on bearing liabilities. Through the implementation of this framework, the authors offer a more accurate and more specific approach to valuing banks.

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.