The paper analyzes developments in bank lending in Italy during the financial crisis, assessing the relative contribution of demand and supply factors to lending deceleration. We find that the slowdown in lending was mainly due to a reduction in demand. For households, this can be attributed to...

Italian Abstract: Il rischio sistemico, che le politiche macroprudenziali hanno l'obiettivo di minimizzare, è in pratica assai difficile da identificare ex ante. La ricerca di indicatori che potrebbero consentire di attivare le politiche macroprudenziali con un anticipo sufficiente a evitare o...

The paper deals firstly with the assessment of nonfinancial firm’s risk exposure which has been deeply affected in the last two decades by the trend of market globalization and increased competition. In this new scenario we can note the weakening of the traditional separation between risks...