We study the impact of ECB's supervisory announcements on the Bank Stock index, from 2013 through 2017. Our evidence shows that the news, related to supervisory actions, do have highly significant effects on the market price of banks, contributing to the volatility of the Bank Stock Index for...

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...

Die Euro-Finanzminister sind angesichts der geplanten Ausgabenerhöhung des hoch verschuldeten Italiens in Besorgnis. Die EU-Kommission verzichtete vorerst auf ein Defizitverfahren, obwohl die italienische Regierung die EU-Haushaltsvorschriften noch immer nicht erfüllt. Stürzt Italien Europa...

Labor mobility is commonly taken as a property of an optimal currency area. But how does that property affect the outcome of fiscal policies? We address this issue with a two country ?two period model, where both asymmetric and symmetric productivity shocks may hit the countries. We show that...

To protect retail investors from the bail-in rule, we propose that banks should issue subordinated "contractual bail-in instruments", as defined in the BRRD, for an amount (together with Tier1 capital) at least equal to 8% of their liabilities. We support our argument by means of a theoretical...

When the debt of firms in distress is dispersed, a restructuring agreement is difficult to reach because of free riding. We develop a repeated game in which banks come across each other frequently, allowing them to threaten a punishment in case of free riding. As the number of lending banks...