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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008626021
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677911
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277938
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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 � rather than … associated with lower volatility of futures returns, while that of swap dealers is sometimes followed by higher price variations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645788
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005609384
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Central Bank Independence, Centralization of Wage Bargaining, Inflation and Unemployment: Theory and Evidence
Cukierman, Alex; Lippi, Francesco - Banca d'Italia - 1998
This paper proposes a conceptual framework that makes it possible to investigate the effects of central bank independence, the degree of centralization of wage bargaining and the interaction between those institutional variables on the real wage, unemployment and inflation. This is done by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005111579
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The Italian overnight market: microstructure effects, the martingale hypothesis and the payment system
Barucci, Emilio; Impenna, Claudio; Reno, Roberto - Banca d'Italia - 2003
This paper analyzes the Italian segment of the Eurozone money market since the start of the European Monetary Union. Some relevant variables are analyzed at different frequencies (intramonth, intraweek and intraday); both level and volatily of the overnight interest rate, volume exchanged in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113525
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Firm investment and monetary transmission in the euro area
Chatelain, J. B.; Generale, Andrea; Hernando, I.; … - Banca d'Italia - 2001
We present a comparable set of results on the monetary transmission channels on firm investment for the four largest countries of the euro area (Germany, France, Italy and Spain). With particularly rich micro datasets for each country containing over 215,000 observations from 1985 to 1999, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113530
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Composite indicators for monetary analysis
Nobili, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2009
The prominent role assigned to money by the ECB has been the subject of an intense debate because of the declining predictive power of the monetary aggregate M3 for inflation in recent years. This paper reassesses the information content of monetary analysis for future inflation using dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980170
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The main recessions in Italy: a retrospective comparison
Bassanetti, Antonio; Cecioni, Martina; Nobili, Andrea; … - Banca d'Italia - 2009
This paper proposes a comparative analysis of the main macroeconomic aggregates (both real and credit aggregates), and the monetary policy response during the most severe recessions experienced by the Italian economy. This descriptive study focuses mainly on the last forty years, a period for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987433