Antonio Bianco

Sapienza University of Rome | la sapienza · Department of Social Sciences DISS

The work of John Hicks is an unending source of inspiration for many economists and an unsolved dilemma for historians of economic thought. This article highlights the fact that Hicks’s peculiar perspective on the economic agent constitutes the sub-structure underlying his research path, and the common premise to his theories of markets, liquidity,...

Drawing on the endogenous character of money and credit supply, an accounting model of three fundamental drivers of fragility (sudden stops) in a non-depository financial sector is here presented. Essentially, financial firms adopt a scheme of idiosyncratic liquidity risk management (ILRM): depository institutions (traditional banks) opt for an ori...

The paper explores whether a theory of banks doing ‘finance through money creation’ implies a reconsideration of demand-side macro theory as well. To this aim, a simple methodological accounting model of the influence of financial markets over the real economy is presented. The model allows a tidy comparison of relationship and shadow banking, inte...

Mainstream models that allow for financial operations are characterized by the understanding of banks as intermediaries of outside money (IOM). This approach to banks became dominant thanks to a peculiar rhetorical device by Tobin (1963 Tobin, J. 1963. “Commercial Banks as Creators of ‘Money’.”Paper 205. New Haven, CT: Cowles Foundation. [Google Sc...

Current regulation in EU cohesion policy lays emphasis on ex ante impact evaluations. This kind of evaluation technique is based on the assumption of a theory of the process of change (‘theory of change’) the policy is meant to activate. The application of theories of change based on a concept of equilibrium is likely to fail capturing essential fa...

Current regulation in EU cohesion policy lays emphasis on ex ante impact evaluations. This kind of evaluation technique is based on the assumption of a theory of the process of change ('theory of change') the policy is meant to activate. The application of theories of change based on a concept of equilibrium is likely to fail capturing essential fa...

Review of C. Wennerlind's book 'Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution, 1620–1720'