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Privatization in Italy 1993-2002 : goals, institutions, outcomes, and outstanding issues
Goldstein, Andrea - 2003
This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of …. The wave of state divestitures reached Italy later than other OECD countries. A deep-rooted tradition of state … attempts at privatization of the 1980s, delaying until 1992 the start of largescale privatizations. These were imposed on …
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Privatisation around the world : new evidence from panel data
Bortolotti, Bernardo; Fantini, Marcella; Siniscalco, … - 2001
This paper presents new evidence about privatisation processes and their determinants from a panel of 34 countries over the 1977-99 period. The empirical analysis shows that privatisation takes place typically in wealthy and democratic countries, endowed with deep and liquid stock markets, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400889
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Privatisation and institutions : a cross country analysis
Bortolotti, Bernardo; Siniscalco, Domenico; Fantini, … - 2000
Privatisation, i.e. the transfer of ownership and control of state-owned enterprises, is a worldwide phenomenon. Which political, economic and institutional factors are shaping this process? This paper addresses the issue presenting new evidence from a sample of 49 countries. From an empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786716
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Treasury auctions and secondary market dynamics : an analysis based on the MTS market for Italy
Cafiso, Gianluca - 2015
deeper and more accurately these two findings by taking Italy as a case study. Our results question the so-called auction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519950
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Banking crises and boom-bust dynamics : evidence for Italy (1861-2016)
Bartoletto, Silvana; Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta; … - 2018
., 2017), we analyze the linkage between banking crises and the business cycle in Italy over the last two centuries. The vast … literature on banking crises in Italy is dominated by the narrative approach. In this work we aim to advance the argument one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819402
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Asymmetry in volatility : a comparison of developed and transition stock markets
Wdowinski, Piotr; Malecka, Marta - 2010
ARCH modelling framework of Engle (1982) and its GARCH generalization of Bollerslev (1986) gave a huge impetus to econometric model building in the field of financial time series with time-varying variance. The main idea of the models was to describe the most typical features of capital markets...
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Financial fragility, bubbles and monetary policy
Illing, Gerhard - 2001
The paper models the links between financial fragility, asset markets and monetary policy. It is shown that central bank's concern about the cost of financial disruption generates an asymmetric response, thus contributing to the creation of an asset price bubble. In an economy with a highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398119
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Gold, oil, and stocks : dynamic correlations
Baruník, Jozef; Kočenda, Evžen; Vácha, Lukáš - 2015
We employ a wavelet approach and conduct a time-frequency analysis of dynamic correlations between pairs of key traded assets (gold, oil, and stocks) covering the period from 1987 to 2012. The analysis is performed on both intra-day and daily data. We show that heterogeneity in correlations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515402
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Unleashing animal spirits : self-control and overpricing in experimental asset markets
Kocher, Martin; Lucks, Konstantin E.; Schindler, David - 2016
One possible determinant of overpricing on asset markets is a lack of self-control abilities of traders. Self-control is the individual capacity to override or inhibit undesired behavioral tendencies such as impulses and to refrain from acting on them. We implement the first experiment that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444434
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Asymmetric connectedness on the US stock market : bad and good volatility spillovers
Baruník, Jozef; Kočenda, Evžen; Vácha, Lukáš - 2015
This paper suggests how to quantify asymmetries in volatility spillovers that emerge due to bad and good volatility. Using data covering most liquid U.S. stocks in seven sectors, we provide ample evidence of the asymmetric connectedness of stocks at the disaggregate level. Moreover, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509638