This paper reviews the main macroeconomic trends and the debate on policy priorities in Italy since the end of the … Nineties. In the decade up to the outbreak of the global crisis (1998-2007), in Italy the reform process came to a virtual … factors masked the difficulties of the productive system. Had Italy been better positioned in terms of public finances and …

This paper reviews the main macroeconomic trends and the debate on policy priorities in Italy since the advent of EMU …. It argues that, in the decade up to the outbreak of the global crisis (1998-2007), in Italy the reform process came to a … productive system. Had Italy been better positioned in terms of public finances and structural features in 2007, some of the …

Since it became a united country, Italy was looked at with keen eyes by foreign economists, economic historians and … policy makers. They wanted to see whether it would be possible for the economy of a country which had in the XVII and XVIII … economy at different stages of its development. An attempt is made to see what influence their opinions had on Italian …

area. The paper looks primarily at Italy, using the examples of Germany and Japan to search for parallels and contrasts … Germany and Japan followed a much more orthodox stance than Italy), in institutional set-ups (with Italy much less efficient … than Germany and Japan), in labour market relations (with much greater conflict in Italy than in the other two countries …