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Does it pay to have friends? Social ties and executive appointments in banking
Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Koetter, Michael; … - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2011
Social capital theory predicts individuals establish social ties based on homophily, i.e., affinities for similar others. We exploit a unique sample to analyze how similarities and social ties affect career outcomes in banking based on age, education, gender, and employment history to examine if...
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Financial innovation oversight: a policy framework
Carlo, Gola; Antonio, Ilari - Banca d'Italia - 2013
This paper proposes a policy framework for intercepting, monitoring and containing the unintended harmful effects of financial innovation. The current approach, adopted by several authorities, makes extensive use of the tools of transparency and disclosure, mainly for consumer protection. It has...
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Women on corporate boards in Italy
Bianco, Magda; Ciavarella, Angela; Signoretti, Rossella - Banca d'Italia - 2013
We examine the presence of women in Italian corporate boards before the introduction of Law 120/2012. We consider all directors of publicly-traded firms in 2008-10 and investigate the potential determinants of having boards with gender-diverse representation and the correlation between female...
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Women on Italian bank boards: are they �gold dust�?
Prete, Silvia Del; Stefani, Maria Lucia - Banca d'Italia - 2013
Italy ranks among EU countries with the fewest women on bank boards. Using a rich dataset on Italian banks that combines individual data on bank governance with different measures of performance and risk, this paper analyses the determinants of the gender gap in top positions. Econometric...
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Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Imbalances
Baldacci, Emanuele; Gupta, Sanjeev; Mulas-Granados, Carlos - Banca d'Italia - 2014
The volume collects the essays presented at the 15th Workshop on Public Finance organised by Banca d'Italia in Perugia from 4 to 6 April 2013. The workshop focused on the link between fiscal policy and macroeconomic imbalances and comprised four sessions. The first session concentrated on the...
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Macroeconomic effects of simultaneous implementation of reforms after the crisis
Gerali, Andrea; Notarpietro, Alessandro; Pisani, … - Banca d'Italia - 2014
This paper evaluates the macroeconomic effects of simultaneously implementing fiscal consolidation and competition-friendly reforms in a country of the euro area by simulating a large-scale dynamic general equilibrium model. We find, first, that the joint implementation of reforms has additional...
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Die Deutsche Bundesbank : geldpolitische Aufgaben und Instrumente
Deutsche Bundesbank - 1985 - 3. Aufl.
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Die Deutsche Bundesbank : geldpolitische Aufgaben u. Instrumente
Deutsche Bundesbank - 1987 - 4. Aufl.
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How stressed are banks in the interbank market?
Abbassi, Puriya; Fecht, Falko; Weber, Patrick - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2013
recourse to the LOLR facility (a) to derive banks' willingness-to-pay for liquidity through a one-week repo and (b) to show … results suggest (i) that banks' willingness-to-pay for liquidity indeed reflects refinancing conditions in the interbank …
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International banking and liquidity risk transmission: Lessons from across countries
Buch, Claudia M.; Goldberg, Linda - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2014
financial crisis. Yet, we know little about the actual magnitudes and mechanisms for transmission of liquidity shocks through … studies conducted in 11 countries to explore liquidity risk transmission. Among the main results is, first, that explanatory … power of the empirical model is higher for domestic lending than for international lending. Second, how liquidity risk …
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