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The effects of privatization and consolidation on bank productivity: comparative evidence from Italy and Germany

Fiorentino, Elisabetta; Vincenzo, Alessio De; Heid, Frank; … - Banca d'Italia - 2009

directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state …

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Does the expansion of higher education increase the equality of educational opportunities? Evidence from Italy

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Blasio, Guido de - Banca d'Italia - 2008

This paper studies the role of the expansion of higher education supply in increasing the equality of post-secondary education opportunities. It examines Italyï¿½s experience during the 1990s, when policy changes prompted universities to offer a wider range of degree courses and to open new...

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The demand for bank loans in Italy at national and macro-regional level (1984-96)

Focarelli, Dario; Rossi, Paola - Banca d'Italia - 1998

Bank lending expanded rapidly in Italy in the second half of the 1980s and early 1990s. By contrast, in the four years … parameters of the demand for loans in the different parts of Italy? If such differences do exist, how have they influenced recent … displays differing characteristics in the different parts of Italy. In particular, its elasticity to interest rates was lower …

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Energy Consumption, Survey Data and the Prediction of Industrial Production in Italy

Marchetti, Domenico J.; Parigi, Giuseppe - Banca d'Italia - 1998

We investigate the prediction of Italian industrial production. We first specify a model based on electricity consumption; we show that the cubic trend in such a model mostly captures the evolution over time of the electricity coefficient, which can be well approximated by a smooth transition...

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Household Wealth Distribution in Italy in the 1990s

Brandolini, Andrea; Cannari, Luigi; D'Alessio, Giovanni; … - Banca d'Italia - 2004

This paper describes the composition and distribution of household wealth in Italy. First, the evolution of household …

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Employment, innovation, and productivity: Evidence from italian microdata

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - Banca d'Italia - 2007

Italian manufacturing firms have been losing ground with respect to many of their European competitors. This paper presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firmsï¿½ productivity with the goal of understanding the roots of such poor...

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Innovation and productivity in SMEs. Empirical evidence for Italy

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - Banca d'Italia - 2009

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation success from firm surveys along with the usual R&D...

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(Non)persistent effects of fertility on female labour supply

Rondinelli, Concetta; Zizza, Roberta - Banca d'Italia - 2010

reduction of female labour supply around childbirth, using the Bank of Italy's SHIW we find that this effect dissipates over …

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Changing labour market opportunities for young people in Italy and the role of the family of origin

Berloffa, Gabriella; Modena, Francesca; Villa, Paola - Banca d'Italia - 2015

Study (Ilfi) and show that employment opportunities have changed significantly in Italy over the past three decades (from …

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Corporate geography in multi-plant firms

Cappariello, Rita; Federico, Stefano; Zizza, Roberta - Banca d'Italia - 2012

This paper focuses on how multi-plant firms allocate their workforce and investments between headquarters or plants located in or close to the headquarters area (HQ plants) and those located in the same country but farther away from the headquarters area (non-HQ plants). Using survey data on...

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