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December 2017

The two roads of European banks' restructuring

Gianfranco Torriero, Stefano Bottino
In a scenario of a more intensive competitive pressure on banks, stressed by the combined effect of profit margins' reduction and larger capital requirements, European banks have started the path of change but with different ...
Research on human risky behaviours could benefit investors by increasing their consciousness of the emotional component of their decision making under risk, with a challenge of “awareness of unawareness” ...
Despite growing interest in youth financial literacy, their attitudes toward finance have not been directly explored and recognized so far. We suppose that a good attitude toward finance may predict high financial kwowledge ...
In a changing economy, banks and companies have to face not only a problem of information asymmetry, but also of knowledge asymmetry. The latter is hampering the processes of companies innovation, restructuring ...
Born as a technology useful only for the crypto-currencies, the Blockchain is now increasingly considered as an innovation that can be used in many other areas, with new and different methods and applications ...

Volatility Exchange Traded Notes: a case study

Andrea Paltrinieri, Enrico Geretto, Maurizio Polato
Over the last years, the financial engineering has developed a lot of complex financial instruments. Those products have flooded the financial market and are often traded by retail investors, without the needed knowledge ...