Using both quantity- and price-based measures of financial integration, this paper shows an increasing degree of financial openness and integration in emerging Asian markets. This paper also assesses the impact of a regional shock relative to a global shock on local equity and bond markets. The...

One possible determinant of overpricing on asset markets is a lack of self-control abilities of traders. Self-control is the individual capacity to override or inhibit undesired behavioral tendencies such as impulses and to refrain from acting on them. We implement the first experiment that is...

The working group, in valuing the scientific publications made in previous years on the quantification and measurement of the indicators of 'attraction' of a territory, tried to find a sustainable development model, verifing the effect that the recent introduction APEA (Industrial Areas...

There is a general acceptance of the fact that a significant direct relationship between financial markets and macroeconomic variables exists, especially by considering the assertion that developed financial markets correspond to high GDP levels. This paper provides an investigation of the...

In more than 130 years, the cooperative banks and rural banks, have become a best practice, widespread in all the Italian regions so as to become, through Federcasse, a federal system included among the 130 European banks, referents ECB. A model that today has about 400 local banks and that,...

Basically, shadow banking is an original kind of business organization, or better a set of institutions and markets, finalized to disinvest fixed assets and convey them to the financial markets. Nowadays, tackling the subject means penetrating the hard core of financialization. Shadow banking...

This paper explores the different regulatory roles within the financial sector; the tensions and complementarities that can exist between the role of a competition agency and regulators, in particular central banks and discussed the ways in which agencies can ensure they co-operate effectively....

This report provides an overview of equity markets in six Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru), along with recommendations to support development of equity markets and access to finance for corporations in the region.

This review of Latvia by the OECD Committee on Financial Markets is part of a series of reviews of the financial system. The Committee was requested to examine Latvia’s position with respect to core principles related to financial systems.

This review of Colombia by the OECD Committee on Financial Markets is part of a series of reviews of the financial system. The Committee was requested to examine Colombia’s position with respect to core principles related to financial systems. The present report was finalised on the basis of...