Il sistema bancario e finanziario italiano utilizza l’innovazione per modificare la propria struttura e per cogliere nuove occasioni di profittabilità e di miglioramento della performance. Le banche italiane, sottoposte ad una crescente pressione concorrenziale a causa delle mutate condizioni...

A derivative is defined by the BIS (1995) as “a contract whose value depends on the price of underlying assets, but which does not require any investment of principal in those assets. As a contract between two counterparts to exchange payments based on underlying prices or yields, any transfer...

This paper articulates three insights regarding asset prices and monetary policy: (1) Asset price appreciation due to monetary expansion, despite its “paper” wealth nature, tends to make current consumers as a whole wealthier; (2) the wealth effect of monetary policy (on consumption) is...