While a large body of literature argues that financial intermediaries exert a causal impact on long-run growth, it doesn't investigate the links between financial architecture and technological change (as primary source of growth). We seek to shed light on these links by exploring the...

GDP, the key statistics describing the state of the economy, is collected at low frequency, typically on a quarterly basis, and released with a substantial lag. The goal of this paper is to have the most timely and accurate idea about the current real economic activity, measured by the growth...

We investigate say-on-pay (SOP) voting outcomes in a country (Italy) where ownership structure is concentrated by regressing shareholder dissent on a comprehensive set of independent variables (spanning from remuneration structure and disclosure to corporate governance), coming from the Italian...

This paper analyses the determinants of sovereign spreads in the euro area from January 2002 to May 2012. The objective is to disentangle the role of country-specific fundamentals, driven by fiscal and macroeconomic factors, from what is referred to as contagion. Following the existing empirical...