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The pricing of government-guaranteed bank bonds

Levy, Aviram; Zaghini, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2010

We examine the effects of the government guarantee schemes for bank bonds adopted in the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers demise to help banks retain access to wholesale funding. We describe the evolution and the pattern of bond issuance across countries to assess the effect of the schemes. Then...

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Credit ratings in structured finance and the role of systemic risk

Violi, Roberto - Banca d'Italia - 2010

This paper explores the implications of systemic risk in Credit Structured Finance (CSF). Risk measurement issues loomed large during the 2007-08 financial crisis, as the massive, unprecedented number of downgrades of AAA senior bond tranches inflicted severe losses on banks, calling into...

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Share Prices and Trading Volume: Indications of Stock Exchange Efficiency.

Massa, M.; Majnoni, G. - Banca d'Italia - 1996

This paper tests whether the reforms effected by the Italian Stock Exchange at the beginning of the nineties (creation of specialized intermediaries, obligation to trade on the official markets, screen-based trading and cash settlement) have increased market efficiency.

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Stock Prices and Money Velocity: A Multi-Country Analysis.

Caruso, M. - Banca d'Italia - 1996

What kind of information do stock prices offer for predicting velocity? This paper develops previous work by Milton Friedman for the US economy and shows that a wealth effect derived from the stock market has negatively influenced the ratio of nominal income to a broad definition of money in a...

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The role of financial investments in agricultural commodity derivatives markets

Borin, Alessandro; Nino, Virginia Di - Banca d'Italia - 2012

volatility of futures prices. The Granger-causality tests suggest that speculative investments usually follow ï¿½ rather than … associated with lower volatility of futures returns, while that of swap dealers is sometimes followed by higher price variations. …

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Estimating expectations of shocks using option prices

Cesare, Antonio Di - Banca d'Italia - 2004

point in time, the parameters of the model are estimated by minimizing the sum of squared implied volatility errors, and … their informational content is compared with the widely used Black and Scholes implied volatility, calculated on at … periods of high variability of asset prices the jump-diffusion approach may help to disentangle the cases in which volatility …

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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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An assessment of financial sector rescue programmes

Panetta, Fabio; Faeh, Thomas; Grande, Giuseppe; Ho, Corrinne - Banca d'Italia - 2009

We analyse the wide array of rescue programmes adopted in several countries, following Lehman Brothersï¿½ default in September 2008, in order to support banks and other financial institutions. We first provide an overview of the programmes, comparing their characteristics, magnitudes and...

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What Caused the Asian Currency and Financial Crisis?

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Pesenti, Paolo; Roubini, Nouriel - Banca d'Italia - 1998

The paper explores the view that the Asian currency and financial crises in 1997 and 1998 reflected structural and policy distortions in the countries of the region, even though market overreaction and herding caused the plunge of exchange rates, asset prices and economic activity to be more...

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Prudential Regulation and Supervision Instruments and Aims: A General Framework

Giordano, Claire - Banca d'Italia - 2009

The aim of the present note is to outline a general, but at the same time comprehensive, framework of the array of instruments that regulators can use in their activity of prudential regulation and supervision. Such a framework should be applicable to a variety of geographical and historical...

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