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Results and problems of five years of incomes policy: an initial quantitative evaluation

Fabiani, Silvia; Locarno, Alberto; Oneto, Gianpaolo; … - Banca d'Italia - 1998

What role was played by the incomes policy launched in 1992-93? Part of a new “culture of stability” or factor distorting the adjustment process? This paper makes an initial evaluation of the effects of the reform of the wage-bargaining system on the link between wages and prices, on the...

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The Eurosystem’s monetary, banking and financial statistics: some reflections on results and future steps

Bonis, Riccardo De - Banca d'Italia - 2013

This paper summarizes the results attained by the Eurosystem in harmonizing the statistics used for the conduct of monetary policy. Since the creation of the euro area, in January 1999, significant progress has been made in the harmonization of data on banks’ balance sheets, central banks and...

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The Italian Business Cycle: Coincident and Leading Indicators and Some Stylized Facts.

Altissimo, F.; Marchetti, D.J.; Oneto, G.P. - Banca d'Italia - 2000

This paper analyses the business cycle properties of 183 time series relevant to the Italian economy, including real, monetary and international variables. We propose new monthly coincident and leading composite indicators for the Italian business cycle; the leading indicator anticipates the...

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The new balance of payments and international investment position statistics: methodology and results

Cappariello, Rita; Ortolani, Giuseppe; Pellegrini, Valeria - Banca d'Italia - 2012

The paper presents the new data collection and the estimation methodology for the external statistics, the results of the comparison between the old and the new data in the overlapping period and the evolution of the Italian balance of payments and international investment position since the...

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The Italian Business Cycle; Coincident and Leading Indicators and Some Stylized Facts

Altissimo, Filippo; Marchetti, Domenico J.; Oneto, Gian … - Banca d'Italia - 2000

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The effectiveness of investment subsidies: evidence from survey data

Cannari, Luigi; D'Aurizio, Leandro; Blasio, Guido de - Banca d'Italia - 2006

This paper investigates the effects of subsidies on the investment decisions of a sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We use survey information on firmsï¿½ subjective evaluations of the investment they would have undertaken without financing, finding that subsidies have limited...

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School cheating and social capital

Paccagnella, Marco; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2014

In this paper we propose and validate cheating in standardized tests as a new indirect measure of social capital. Given … the low-stakes nature of most of the tests examined here, we interpret the widespread presence of cheating as a signal of … limited trustin central education authorities. Cheating is negatively correlated with several social capital proxies in the …

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