An extensive literature has analysed the economic effects of transition patterns in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries. With few recent exceptions, analysis of the impacts of speed and sequencing of reforms has not concerned the dynamics of income inequality. In this...

An extensive literature has analysed the economic effects of transition patterns in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries. With few recent exceptions, analysis of the impacts of speed and sequencing of reforms has not concerned the dynamics of income inequality. In this...

An extensive literature has analysed the economic effects of transition patterns in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries. With few recent exceptions, analysis of the impacts of speed and sequencing of reforms has not concerned the dynamics of income inequality. In this...

In this paper we study intra-generational income mobility in European countries over the years shortly preceding the outburst of the global crisis. Income mobility plays a crucial role in shaping distributive patterns and is closely related to the capacity of a socio-economic system to provide...

The aim of the present study is to analyse the dynamics of regional consumption and income to explain two significant empirical evidences that have characterized Italian economy in the last two decades: (i) the fall in private saving rate; (ii) the persistence of a wide gap between consumption...

This paper analyses the role of lending technologies and banking relationships on firms' credit access in Italy. Using EFIGE firm-level data, we show that the depth and strength of firm-bank relationships have heterogeneous effects on credit demand and rationing probabilities depending on the...

Using panel firm-level data, this paper analyses the main factors affecting firms' access to bank credit in eleven Euro Area countries over the period 2014-2016. We focus on firm's loan demand behaviour and on bank's actual credit granting decision, using alternative measures of credit...