Bridging the funding gap. New financing instruments for companies in Italy.

By analysing the Italian funfing gap, we identified three alternatives to bank debt that can be used to bridge the funding gapand reactivate the circuit of financing for companies namely minibonds, private equity and company networks.As one of the pending issues in the existing research on funding gaps is the analysis of the impact of these tools on the performance of companies that receive the funds. in this study, we measure the impactof mini-bonds, private equity and company networks in terms of the profitability and financial conditions of the companies under analysis.