Dr. Leone Leonida

Biography

Leone Leonida holds an MSc in Economics and a PhD in Financial Economics from the University of York (2005) and the University of Naples (2001) respectively. His research focuses on the predictive ability of Early Warning Systems for forecasting systemic banking crises and explores improved variables that capture the concentration level of the banking sector and the mechanisms of systemic contagion. Furthermore, he investigates the relationship between corporate investment and a firm’s capital structure, developing semi-parametric techniques to describe the evolution of wages and income distribution in global and EU economies. Leone's work has been published in notable journals including the Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Global Strategy Journal, and others, and he has refereed for over thirty journals in economics and finance. He engages in topics such as the effects of the UK’s Brexit on wage premiums and the dynamics of liquidity profiles within interbank networks. His contributions to the field encompass analyses of capital requirements, public corruption in bank lending, the influence of the Basel Accords on banking competition, and the interplay between political competition and economic growth.

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