E. Gaffeo, R. Mazzocchi – “THE PRICE IS RIGHT”: USING AUCTION THEORY TO ENHANCE COMPETITION IN THE NPL MARKET

Almost a decade after the onset of the global financial crisis, a huge stock of non-performing loans (NPLs) still repres...

March 2, 2017

B. Rosa, L. Caracciolo – EUROPE IN THE BREXIT & TRUMP ERA: DIS-INTEGRATION AND RE-GROUPING

Europe borders with Chaosland, a part of the world overwhelmed by great instability factors; war, terrorism, widespread ...

March 2, 2017

L. Codogno, G. Galli: Italiexit is not a solution for Italy’s problems

The rise of no-euro and anti-establishment movements in Italy came along with claims that exiting the euro, i.e. Italexi...

February 23, 2017

C. Bastasin, M. Messori: A JOINT INTERVENTION FOR ITALY: A NON-PUNITIVE PLAN FOR INVESTMENT AND REFORM

The Italian government needs to propose a contractual agreement to European institutions aimed at reforming the country....

February 13, 2017

M. Buti, K. Pichelmann: EUROPEAN INTEGRATION & POPULISM: ADDRESSING DAHRENDORF’S QUANDARY

After a decades-long process where national economies became more and more entangled and interdependent at both the inte...

January 30, 2017

F. Bruni, S. Fabbrini, M. Messori – EUROPE 2017: MAKE IT OR BREAK IT ?

We highlight the drastic downsizing of the ambition to deepen EU and/or EMU integration. These diminished ambitions are ...

January 24, 2017

L. Codogno, M. Monti – Italy’s recent support to its banks: The start of a new wave of public intervention in the EU

The banking crisis in Europe has three distinct waves. The first wave was pure financial contagion from the sub-prime cr...

January 18, 2017

C. Bastasin: THE GOOD OL’ DAYS OF BANKING THAT OUTLIVED THE LIRA AND RESISTS THE EURO

In the final weeks of 2016, the Italian banks’ saga threatened to unsettle the euro area. The failure to implement a m...

January 17, 2017

M. Messori – Monte dei Paschi di Siena: The ball is in the Italian government’s court

In the final days of 2016, the definitive failure to implement a market recapitalization of Monte dei Paschi di Siena (M...

January 11, 2017