This work deals with the transmission of monetary policy through the bank loan market, in presence of a capital requirement regulation. Unlike standard models, based on the quot;representative bankquot; shortcut, we adopt the heterogeneous agents approach: this allows us to explicitly model the...

This work provides an empirical investigation of shareholders' agreements signed in Italy over the past decade. The evidence shows that agreements produce a remarkable reshuffling of voting power (Shapley value) among participants. In particular, the first owner gains much voting power at low...

A model is presented, where firms issuing equity differ in the ability of their controlling shareholders to extract private benefits: thus a lemon problem, leading to cross-subsidization across issuers, is added to the moral hazard issue. A governance institution is introduced, enabling large...

Structural models produce credit spreads which are too low relative to those observed in the market. This problem is particularly relevant for: i) short maturities; ii) firms with low leverage and volatility. Duffie and Lando (2001) suggested that allowing for accounting noise could solve issue...

We present a simple model, where intraday and overnight interest rates are linked by a no-arbitrage argument. The hourly interest rate is shown to be a function of the intraday term structure of the overnight rate. This property holds under both assumptions, where an explicit intraday market for...

We stress the role of a more balanced financial structure for the Italian corporate sector. Three sources of funding are seen as complementary: equity, long-term debt, and bank loans. An analysis of the credit crunch shows the emergence of two phases: the first from the Lehman crash (2008) to 2010;...

Labor mobility is commonly taken as a property of an optimal currency area. But how does that property affect the outcome of fiscal policies? In our model, we show that perfect (costless) labour mobility is not necessarily welfare improving, since it prevents the national fiscal authorities from...

The model shows how monetary policy affects the supply of bank loans, highlighting the difference between bank reaction to a monetary shock in the short run (fixed equity) and in the long run (endogenous equity). Results: I) Capital requirements matter, even if banks are well capitalized: the...

By analyzing high frequency data for the European interbank market, we show that the intraday interest rate (implicitly defined by the term structure of the ON rate) jumped by more than ten times at the outset of the financial turmoil in August 2007, resulting in an inefficiency of the money...