This paper summarizes the results attained by the Eurosystem in harmonizing the statistics used for the conduct of monetary policy. Since the creation of the euro area, in January 1999, significant progress has been made in the harmonization of data on banks' balance sheets, central banks and...

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...

The paper explores the motivations underlying the securitization activity of Italian banks from 1999 to 2006. By estimating probit and proportional hazard duration models, in which the probability of placing securitizations is linked to a set of balance sheet indicators and a vector of further...

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...

Ucits IV Directive will lead to the redefinition of business models in the field of asset management: the process centralization, the increasing use of outsourcing, the ongoing internationalization, the adoption of transnational strategies, able to combine services platforms with local higher...

The market for Italian real estate funds has been characterized in recent years by fluctuations affecting both the number of new products and their performance. It is therefore important to establish criteria for measuring the funds’ performances, based on the income return and capital growth...

Previous researches have demonstrated that consumer decisions could be affected by some biases in the supplementary pension field. Decisionmaking is very often not guided by rationality, and in many cases, if forced to choose, people will decide not to decide, passively accepting the decisions...

The radical change, induced by the crisis, which is affecting the distribution has produced a greater supply of products and services to customers, stressing the importance of factors such as the growth in services revenues and the need to cut costs. In the new context, the supply of products...

The Aifmd Directive aims to create a comprehensive regulatory and supervisory framework for the alternative fund industry in the European Union. It will help to overcome gaps and inconsistencies in existing regulatory frameworks at national level and will provide a basis for the development of...