Immediately after the Lehman Brothers failure, the lack of confidence in the financial markets and the serious difficulties of several European cross border financial intermediaries, a large wave of public rescue and support measures in favour of European banks and financial institutions and...

La crisi finanziaria iniziata del 2007 ha determinato il più grave salvataggio della storia. Le banche, con l'unica eccezione di Lehman Brothers, hanno goduto di un autentico diritto a non fallire, che rischia di rendere permanente l'azzardo morale e di impedire che la disciplina di mercato...

La crisi finanziaria scoppiata nel 2007 è stata affrontata con decisione e in modo coordinato da governi e banche centrali, con politiche basate su salvataggi bancari, garanzie pubbliche sulle passività degli intermediari ed eccezionali iniezioni di fondi a basso costo. Nel frattempo, si...

Il contributo analizza il legame tra politica della concorrenza e recessione economica. In particolare, viene approfondito il tema della fiducia nella capacità degli assetti concorrenziali di produrre effetti positivi, messa sostanzialmente a rischio dalla crisi finanziaria e dallo stato di...

The recent financial crisis has highlighted the consensus, among authors, on the need to complement traditional micro-policies with a macro-prudential approach, in order to protect the financial system as a whole. The paper presents the concept of macro-prudential policy, the objectives, the...

This work estimates a reduced model of the determinants of the 10-year yield spreads relative to Germany for 10 Eurozone countries. Results show that since the inception of the 2007 crisis, spreads have exhibited a rising time-dependent component. Country specific estimated responses to...

This paper provides estimates of the effects of the fall in financial and housing wealth in 2008-2009 on overall macroeconomic activity. These effects are large and account for a large fraction of the slowdown in activity. Much of the 2008-2009 recession is estimated to be simply standard wealth...

We examine spillover effects of the recent U.S. financial crisis on five emerging Asian countries by estimating conditional correlations of financial asset returns across countries using multivariate GARCH models. We propose a novel approach that simultaneously estimates the conditional...

This article investigates whether the recent financial crisis has had any adverse impact on bank competition for 24 emerging and 25 advanced countries with large and small-size banks over the sample period 2001-2010. The H-statistic advocated by Panzar and Rosse (1987) is employed as the measure...

From 2007 to 2010, more than 200 community banks in the United States failed. Many of these failed community banking organizations (CBOs) held less than $1 billion in total assets. As economic conditions worsen, banking organizations are expected to preserve capital to withstand unexpected...