Non-performing loans (NPLs) have been plagueing Italy’s economy since the financial crisis broke out in 2007 and economic headwinds have since then been pushing back Italian banks’ capability of shedding them at least until late 2016. Economists know that high levels of non-performing loans in banks’ balance sheets hinder the
The diffusion of R is certainly an interesting phenomenon on many counts. First, it encompasses many different fields of academic as well as applied research. Second, it’s been developing as one of the dominating analytics tools in areas such as mining of big data sets and finance, for example. Third,
MICERs are Market Implied Consensus Expected Returns and are the result – in terms of risk premium – of a reverse optimization using some available market information about variances, covariances and capitalizations. Investors express their views about stocks by collectively holding the market portfolio, by doing so market capitalizations represent
Investors express their views about stocks by collectively holding the market portfolio, by doing so market capitalizations represent investors’ trading choices to hold securities according to their preferences in terms of expected risk and return. If investors seek to maximize their utility in holding portfolios and do hold their desired
Recovery is on the way. Maybe we should say it’s on the road, again. Never before I had dealt with 121,189 rows times 93 columns for the mind boggling figure of 11,270,577 numbers. Browsing the catalogue on the European Union Open Data Portal I stumbled – actually this happened not so randomly -
The so called shadow economy still matters and though it has gone down by a meaningful share of GDP in world economies it isn’t yet the shadow of what it used to be until a few years ago. The art and science of gauging macroeconomic quantities tells us that nominal GDP (i.e.
It may leave you only cautiously optimistic knowing when it’s likely to interview the right candidate for recruitment, but it is better than nothing. One common issue businesses, and to a greater extent small businesses, face in managing their HR policies is staff turnover. With a local job market - in full swing in
Recently during a webinar we had to face two very interesting but unrelated topics about finance. The first one was about how to consider certificates as an asset class in a diversified portfolio, whereas the second topic revolved around current stock valuation on international markets and the role of emerging
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