This paper contributes to the literature on the effects of changes in bank capital requirements in three ways: first, introducing the notion of (capital ratio) stabilizing Return on Assets; second, by estimating an econometric model for a sample of Italian banks over the period 2007-2012, it...

There are numerous political economy approaches to the question of delayed stabilizations. However, all these approaches regard inflation as the unintentional result of the behavior of interest groups. In this paper we take the opposite view, namely, that when there is polarization of financial...

During the 2007–2008 financial crisis several banking systems suffered shortages in U.S. dollars. The liquidity crisis of these banking systems was overcome thanks to the successful intervention of the Federal Reserve that granted swap lines to several central banks, acting as an international...

In a mode1 à la Rogoff, with independent fiscal (AF) and monetary (AM) authority, the Nash equilibrium is characterized by an infiation rate and by a fiscal surplus lower than the ones desired by the two authorities. In the contract of performance approach, the coordination problem between...

The literature has underlined the existence of widespread economic regularities in the stabilization processes of the 1920s. This paper shows that political regularities also existed. The main reasons for these regularities are explained in terms of a political exchange hypothesis according to...

The prevalent reinterpretations of the Great Inflation formulated in recent periods attribute the inflationist acceleration of the 1970s mainly to the fact that policymakers at the time based themselves on ‘mistaken’ economic ideas, above all the traditional Phillips curve. However, the...

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 loans. The results...

The relationship between economic activity and the banking sector has always been one of the central themes in both the academic and practitioners debates. In this work we present a methodological tool of macro stress tests, focused on Italy. We estimate an autoregressive model (Var) to assess...

In the first fifteen years of its life the ECB has delivered price stability through an accommodative monetary policy stance. It has played a crucial role during the sovereign crisis. At the start of 2012, the severe liquidity stress, fixed through the LTROs, has signalled that Italian banks...

The affordability index of Italian households analyzes the factors influencing the households’ propensity to buy an house with a mortgage loan. In 2013, the index recorded a significant improvement returning to pre-crisis levels, due to the houses prices decrease and to the fall of interest...