Several studies have explored the linkage between non-performing loans and major macroeconomic indicators, using a wide variety of methodologies, sometimes with different results. This occurs, we argue, because these relationships are generally derived in terms of correlation coefficients...

In this paper we discuss some deep implications of the recent paper by Bollerslev et al. (2016) (BPQ). In BPQ the volatility dynamics modeled as a HAR is augmented by a term involving quarticity in order to correct measurement errors in realized variance. We show that the model is...

This Appendix contains details on several technical points and additional empirical results. Sections in this Appendix are indexed by letters and formulas/tables/figures by a letter followed by a number (e.g. A.1). Sections and formulas/tables/figures of the paper are referenced by numbers. In...

The adoption of pension funds in the Italian social security policy has increased the offer of several investment funds. Workers have to decide what kind of investment to perform, the funds having a different composition and a subsequently different degree of risk. In this paper we propose the...

The transmission mechanisms of volatility between markets can be characterized within a new Markov Switching bivariate model where the state of one variable feeds into the transition probability of the state of the other. A number of model restrictions and hypotheses can be tested to stress the...