Italian Abstract: Con la riforma del Titolo V della Costituzione del 2001 è stata realizzata una profonda revisione dell'assetto costituzionale secondo un orientamento federalista, che ha determinato – tra le altre cose – un ampio trasferimento di competenze legislative alle Regioni. Il...

Despite successive reforms, public procurement in Italy is still highly fragmented and vulnerable to collusion, corruption and ex-post renegotiation. Other defects are found in the planning stages of the works. These problems are due in part to the regulations on the awarding of public works...

Decentralized Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) can be understood as collective organizations that are run through blockchain-based smart contracts, which allow token holders to participate directly in decision-making processes. By harnessing the key features of distributed ledger technology...

We provide the first thorough investigation of the effect of anti-money laundering inspections on banks' reporting of suspicious transactions. We do so by using highly detailed data from Bank of Italy and UIF (Italian authority for anti-money laundering), which include information on i) on-site...

This study presents the results of a survey carried out by the Bank of Italy in 2015 on the efficiency of credit recovery procedures undertaken by the main Italian banking groups. The recovery rate for liquidations in the years 2011-2014 was slightly above 40 per cent, and the largest share of...

Italian Abstract: Questo studio illustra i risultati di un'indagine sull'efficacia delle procedure di recupero dei crediti alle imprese condotta dalla Banca d'Italia nel 2015 presso i maggiori gruppi bancari. Il tasso di recupero delle liquidazioni nel periodo 2011-14 è stato leggermente...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro fornisce una valutazione, di taglio normativo ed empirico, di alcune misure tese ad agevolare la concessione di liquidità a favore di imprese che abbiano avviato una procedura di concordato preventivo. Dal 2010 in avanti, vari interventi legislativi hanno...

In the euro area, macroprudential policy can be a powerful complement to monetary policy. However, its coordination with microprudential policy is a particularly delicate task. The coexistence of two supervisory regimes that rely on similar tools to pursue different objectives may at times give...

We analyse the deleveraging process with reference to a sample of European banks from December 2011 to June 2013 and find that the leverage ratio (measured as assets to equity) has declined on average from 28.6 to 25.0. Its standard deviation fell from 8.2 to 6.5. About 2/3 of the deleveraging...