This paper develops a stochastic two-country "perpetual youth" Dynamic New Keynesian model of the international business cycle with incomplete international financial markets and stationary net foreign assets. The model allows for a thorough analysis of the interaction of endogenous monetary...

Questo studio analizza le determinanti e le prospettive del venture capital in Italia, nell'ambito dello studio delle relazioni esistenti tra struttura e funzionamento del sistema finanziario e crescita dell'economia e dell'occupazione. Particolare attenzione è dedicata al ruolo svolto dalla...

This paper studies how the interaction between the monetary policy regime and the degree of home bias in public consumption affects the exchange-rate response to fiscal shocks in dynamic open-economy models. Our analysis compares the classic Redux model of Obstfeld and Rogoff (1995) and a modern...

Many recent institutional reforms of the financial system have relied on the introduction of an explicit scheme of deposit insurance. This instrument aims at two main targets, contributing to systemic stability and protecting depositors. However, it may also affect the interest rate spread in...

This paper aims at extending the analysis of the efficiency of equilibria in an OLG framework with asymmetric information. I study the stationary states of an economy where consumers, firms and financial intermediaries are at work. The economy is affected by ex post moral hazard due to costly...

This paper studies the efficiency of equilibria in a productive OLG economy where the process of financial intermediation is characterized by costly state verification. Both competitive equilibria and Constrained Pareto Optimal allocations are characterized. It is shown that market outcomes can...