During the crisis, the operators' confidence in securitization has significantly diminished and the market has registered a sharp slowdown. Among the regulatory initiatives proposed to support this market, retention can play an important role: it may not be sufficient to reduce the information...

The reform of prudential regulation, realized by the Eu Commission after the financial crisis, aimes to reinforce markets integrity and to restore the confidence of investors. First of all, by strengthening cooperation between authorities and secondly creating a reliable and harmonized...

Prudential regulation on Ucits’ shares is complex and is based on an incentive system that, in addition to the standard method, provides for the possibility to use the internal rating-based approach.The introduction of this discipline based on a risk-sensitive approach is certainly positive,...

A new approach to the study of stock returns is proposed. A simple model is developed to show that, in the long run, the average rate of return on the market portfolio equals the average growth rate of income plus an average payout rate measuring the quantity of financial resources distributed...

Since the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007, the level and volatility of Euribor � OIS differentials have increased significantly. According to the extant literature, this variability is mainly explained by credit and liquidity risk premia. I provide evidence that part of the...

This paper examines the recent behavior of sovereign interest rates in the euro area, focusing on the 10 year yield spreads relative to Germany for Italy and other euro area countries. Both previous analyses and the new evidence presented in the paper suggest that, in recent months, for several...

Since the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007, the level and volatility of the Euribor–OIS spreads have increased significantly. According to the literature, this variability is mainly explained by credit and liquidity risk premia. I provide evidence that part of the variability might...

We propose a structural model of two-sided matching and a semi-parametric procedure for its estimation that allow to analyze determinants of managers’ compensation such as firm’s and manager’s quality, production technology, bargaining power and inter-temporal preferences. We use the...