Italian Abstract: L'ampliamento del commercio al dettaglio a livello globale, favorito dalla diffusione delle transazioni via Internet (e-commerce), ha indotto il legislatore europeo a rafforzare i presidi di sicurezza nelle operazioni di pagamento online. Questo lavoro si pone l'obiettivo di...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro analizza l'evoluzione della ricchezza delle famiglie in una prospettiva di lungo periodo, confrontando i cambiamenti del portafoglio finanziario e delle attività non finanziarie in Italia con le dinamiche di altre economie avanzate. In Italia la ricchezza reale è...

Italian Abstract: I conti patrimoniali sono parte del sistema di contabilità nazionale e forniscono un quadro completo della ricchezza di un paese e della sua evoluzione temporale. Nel lavoro vengono presentati i conti patrimoniali dell'Italia costruiti utilizzando i dati dei conti finanziari...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro propone una ricostruzione dei dati delle indagini Istat che consente di analizzare l’effetto meccanico dell’invecchiamento della popolazione sui consumi delle famiglie. L’invecchiamento avrebbe mitigato l’aumento della propensione alla spesa registrato nel...

We analyze households’ economic freedom to determine their standard of living, characterized by their capacity to spend on housing, utilities, food, and transport: economic poverty is a lack of freedom due to budgetary constraints. We propose three new measures. The first is the classical...

We investigate the occurrence of risk sharing among Italian regions with respect to both long run and short run income fluctuations by means of Vector Equilibrium Correction Models (VEqCMs) which allow to test all implications of the theory without preliminary filtering or transformations of...

English Abstract: This paper contributes to the literature on bank risk with a cross-sectional analysis of the bank specific determinants of risk using a new indicator calculated for a sample of 38 Italian banks in the period 2006-2012 and expressed as flow of the amount of new non- performing...

Financial time series analysis has focused on data related to market trading activity. Next to the modeling of the conditional variance of returns within the GARCH family of models, recent attention has been devoted to other variables: first, and foremost, volatility measured on the basis of...

The performance of tax receipts in Italy during the period 1978-2006 is analysed through the relationship between the growth of revenue and the evolution of the macroeconomic framework. Series of actual tax receipts are adjusted to take account of discretionary measures, transformed into...

Many ways exist to measure and model financial asset volatility. In principle, as the frequency of the data increases, the quality of forecasts should improve. Yet, there is no consensus about a "true" or "best" measure of volatility. In this paper we propose to jointly consider absolute daily...