Changes in interest rates, inflation, and exchange rates are the main components of macroeconomic risks (financial risks) in projects evaluation. However, the conduct of monetary policy as well as its impact on the economic environment is seldom considered as an important component of...

This paper aims at studying the legal aspects of the European Union (EU)'s fiscal policy, analyzing the statute of fiscal responsibility legal framework, the different measures undertaken in the last years with respect to European trends in fiscal governance and their implications for challenges...

The global trends in taxation have generated a "race to the bottom" in capital income taxation, which is intended to be stopped by OECD through the introduction of a global minimum tax rate (15% of effective average tax rate-EATR). The question is whether the defined tax competition floor would...

Budgeting is allocating limited resources to unlimited needs and aims to maximise the use of resources that are usually scarce. In the face of these scarce resources, continuous attention to planning, allocating resources, and budgeting is an undeniable necessity. The importance of the budget in...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relation between maturity structure, sovereign bond yields and sovereign risk in the Economic and Monetary Union for the period of 1990–2013. The results confirm the existence of an inverse relationship between sovereign bond yields, sovereign risk and...

The major focus of this paper is on the sovereign-banks relationship following the COVID- 19 pandemic crisis outbreak, with a view to gaining an insight into banks' exposure to the sovereign. We rely on a series of complementary research approaches, such as desk research, comparative statistical...

Italian Abstract: In questo scritto si commenta la pronuncia della Corte di giustizia dell’Unione europea (in seguito ‘CGUE’ o la ‘Corte’), prima sezione, del 20 gennaio 2021 relativa al caso Lexel AB (nel prosieguo ‘Lexel’). Questa sentenza è stata emessa senza le conclusioni...

The main aim of this article is to examine the inter-relationships among the top cryptocurrencies on the crypto stock market in the presence and absence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The nine chosen cryptocurrencies are Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Eos, BitcoinCash, Binance, Stellar, and...

Risk analysis and scenario testing are two of the core activities carried out by economists at central banks. With the increasing adoption of machine learning to enhance decision-support systems, and the amount of collected data spiking, institutions provide countless use-cases for the...

Being active in both the insurance sector and the banking sector, financial conglomerates intrinsically increase the interconnections between the banking sector and the insurance sector. We address two main concerns about financial conglomerates using a unique database on bilateral exposures...