A few years after the introduction of the Amato and Dini laws, a renewed debate on reforming the Italian pension system and on modifying its structure and technical parameters is taking place. The present work simulates individual reactions to systemic changes, distinguishing among the different...

On February 3-4, 2016 SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum –, Deutsche Bundesbank and Stiftung Geld und Währung jointly organized a Colloquium/Conference in Frankfurt in order to evaluate the experience with the SSM – the Single Supervisory Mechanism – during the first year of...

In modern mathematical finance the evolution of several variables such as asset prices, interest rates, latent factors is described, in a continuous time setting, through stochastic differential equations. Nevertheless, in most of the classic literature, these stochastic differential equations...

The author analyzes the firm optimal investment policy, assuming a pure increasing-returns-to-scale technology and adjustment costs. The existence of an optimal plan is proved by applying a new set of necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality. The analysis is carried out in a...