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...

The rise in the cost of funding is having a deep impact in the market of mortgages. Their pricing has thus soared, adding a new component to bank costs, that must also face the rising credit and liquidity risks in the present scenario

The affordability index of Italian households analyzes the factors influencing the households’ propensity to buy an house with a mortgage loan. In 2013, the index recorded a significant improvement returning to pre-crisis levels, due to the houses prices decrease and to the fall of interest...

It is too early to evaluate the effects of political economy measures and to analyze deeply time and ways that characterize the current global crisis. Effect of the political economy actions are not immediate and could be evaluated only looking at expected conditions and perspectives. In fact...

Which are the functions of a compensation system? How it can be used by a company or a bank as an instrument of human resources management? Which are the relations between remuneration systems and bank performances? Only the answer to these questions can help to redefine and project the...