"Stress tests are the most innovative regulatory tool to prevent and fight financial crises. Their use has fundamentally changed the mathematical modeling of financial systems, financial risk management in the public and private sector, and the policies designed to prevent and mitigate financial...

Contents: Salvatore Rossi -- Foreword -- Introduction / Barbara Alemanni, Umberto Filotto, Shabnam Mousavi, Riccardo Viale -- Part I -- The many faces of finance in the academia -- 1. Understanding financial behaviour for better policy making: an introduction / Riccardo Viale -- 2. Behavioral...

1 The exchange industry: recent facts and the current scenario -- 2 The functions and economics of the exchange markets -- 3 Strategic patterns of exchanges -- 4 The surge of alternative players in the trading field -- 5 The governance of exchanges -- 6 Regulation on exchanges: new threats and...