Standard theoretical model cannot generate positive and large real bond risk premium under power utility preferences. Following recent developments in equity premium literature we explore bond premium in a long run risk environment with generalized isoleastic preferences. This approach explains...

Real interest rates, long run risks and business cycles. Standard theoretical model under power utility preferences generates time series for real yields and output that are not consistent with the cyclical properties of the macroeconomic data. In particular real interest rates of the model are...

The financing of innovation impacts on economic growth. What’s, among bank-based or market-based system, the best organizational form? The paper supports the view that both forms have to be merged into a unique approach (law and finance view) embracing not only the overall quality of the...

Globalization means the affirmation of a single market at the global level. More generally, the word globalization is usually used to indicate a unified world that tends to homogenize products and consumption patterns. In addition to the undoubtedly positive effects that the processes of...

This is a theoretical analysis of the role of money and other less liquid financial assets in the financing of the private sector of a market economy. It is concerned, basically, with the functional relations between households, firms, banks and other financial institutions, and with those...

This paper assess the freedom of capital movements between France and Italy in the late 19 century looking at the market for the most important Italian bond, the Rendita Italiana. Taking into account long time series of Rendita prices both in France and in Italy the paper looks at the...

The so-called ‘Theory of Monetary Circuit’ not only represents an original Marxian rereading of Keynesian macroeconomic categories, but also provides an essential tool for the analysis (and the critique) of recent developments in capitalist economies, including the financialisation process....

Il fenomeno dell'indebitamento, insolvenza e crisi economica nel capitalismo è interpretato dall'ortodossia economica secondo la logica speculativa. La nostra intenzione, invece, è interpretare il fenomeno dell'indebitamento, insolvenza e crisi economica nel capitalismo secondo la logica...

Risky investment projects make the coordination among small, uninformed investors hard to achieve, and generate inefficient low levels of investment. Several authors have pointed out the benefits to an economy from multiple avenues of financial intermediation. This paper explains endogenously...

This paper investigates the effects of the increasing activity of foreign banks in Italy, distinguishing between credit granted to households and firms. Foreign banks display a differentiated degree of business expansion across the provinces, we exploit this variability to measure how foreign...