The increasing use of internal market models for market risk assessment and management promotes, in compliance with Basel II, better risk management practices but introduces at the same time the so called model risk. In the light of the many open issues connected to market risk, the aim of this...

English abstract: This paper investigates how Covid mobility restrictions impacted the population of investors of the Italian stock market.The research is the result of a collaboration between Consob and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. The analysis tracks the trading activity of individual...

English Abstract: They can be seen as the sum of a bond and an option (derivative component). The work explores some of the issues for the evaluation of the theoretical value (or fair value) of this type of bonds, providing an order of magnitude of the difference between the issue price (gross...