The general aim of the paper is to address the doubts that too often the Central Banks’ tools and operations don’t fit for a fine tuning of the economies, and this is even more true in harsh times. The paper begins with an overview on the great failures respectively of the Federal Reserve,...

The paper aims at investigating the possible trajectories of regional clusters (industrial districts or local systems) in order to depict feasible strategies to cope with globalization. First, same relevant stylized facts on the new structure of global market are presented in order to illustrate...

The study provides an insight on the regulatory requirements banks have been complying with since the Financial Crisis of 2009. It focuses upon the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive's forthcoming full implementation and its effectiveness. An empirical analysis on the European banks' CDS...

This paper examines the impact of the ECB's 2014 Comprehensive Assessment on the correlation between stock returns and credit default swap spreads (CDS). Specifically, an event study methodology and a panel data analysis are performed on a sample of forty banks assessed by the ECB. The main...

This paper presents a novel approach to investigate and model the network of euro area banks' large exposures within the global banking system. Drawing on a unique dataset, the paper documents the degree of interconnectedness and systemic risk of the euro area banking system based on bilateral...

In this paper we augment the CoMap methodology with an advanced set of regulatory distress and default constraints and banks’ behavioural rules which allows us to model and capture the implications for financial stability of dynamic banks’ responses. The result is an adaptive contagion...

In this paper we construct and analyse the UK banking system’s Global Network of granular exposures which captures roughly 90% of the UK banking system’s total assets for the period 2018 Q1 to 2021 Q4. We thus study the microstructure of UK banking system focusing on the role played by...

This paper examines how the interbank network structure influences banks’ credit supply to the real economy. Using the dynamic UK interbank networks based on the quarterly evolutions of bilateral exposures from 2014 to 2021, we find evidence of both risk-sharing effect through the interbank...