After the Second World War, as the Assemblea Costituente was drafting the new republican Constitution, an intense debate took place among its members as to what model to adopt for the Italian economy. A special Commission, the "Credit Commission", was set up to revise the 1936 banking law,...

In this paper we present an integral equation approach for the valuation of European-style installment derivatives when the premium payments, made continuously throughout the contract’s life, are assumed to be a function of the asset price and time variables. The contribution of this study is...