Liquidity is an important indicator of the state of health of firms. It is, also, a measure of early warning of a possible forthcoming company default. During the global crisis Italian enterprises suffer from a decrease of liquidity index. It is important to analyze this phenomenon from the...

This paper explores an innovative solution to exit from the European debt crisis exploded in 2010.The proposal is based on the securitization of sovereign debts and the creation of a jointly responsibility bond among European countries, the Eurobond, with the surer tranches of their sovereign...

The Italian financial system is still largely relying on bank loans to small and medium enterprises. In order to develop wider equity and bond markets, it is necessary to create incentives to strengthen the role of the capital markets, starting from mini-bonds issuing and loan securitization

The Basel Agreements, designed to pursue financial stability, have been instead a cause of instability, revealing fundamental analytical and operational weaknesses. The idea to define a constant capital ratio through complex statistical models implies serious dangers. A radical change is...

Do rating models embody correctly the impact of macroeconomic variables on debtors’ solvency, determining a lag in downgrading? In pre-crisis periods, when interest rates increases are recorded as well as decreases in real growth rates, rating assessments fail to register risk increases in...

This paper analyzes the determinants of credit to medium-sized enterprises before and during the crisis in Italy. While the bank-enterprise relationship seems to be crucial in the granting of credit before the crisis of 2007, during the crisis the results show a greater virtuosity of firms...

The development of a long lasting relationship between banks and firms requires greater cooperation between the two parties, which must be based on transparency, availability of the right quantitative and qualitative information, the correct and complete use of these information by banks, in...

The crisis has strongly influenced the funding policies in Italian banks, pushing them to raise their stock of time deposits, an attractive product for retail customers in terms of low issuer risk and no market risk

In 2011, Italian businesses and households have faced the Sovereign debt crisis, but savings confirmed its resilience. Since the beginning of the crisis, Italian households’ propensity to save has fallen nearly 1.8 percentage points, although Italy continues to rank above most other...

Establishing a European Banking Union offers clear opportunities: to break bank-fiscal interactions, national supervisory silos and home biases, to reduce fragmentation and improve single market, to stabilize the euro. Nonetheless it involves also risks related to the crisis management...