Italian Abstract: In questo lavoro si analizza la dinamica del credito bancario al settore privato, dal ‘99 (ovvero dall'entrata in vigore dell'euro) al 2015. Si cerca di comprendere quali sono le variabili che spiegano il credito e che maggiormente ne condizionano l'evoluzione, capire le...

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,...

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...

We analyze several measures of volatility (realized variance, bipower variation and squared daily returns) as estimators of integrated variance of a continuous time stochastic process for an asset price. We use a Multiplicative Error Model to describe the evolution of each measure as the product...