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Finance, Human Capital and Infrastructure: An Empirical Investigation of Post-War Italian Growth
Ferri, G.; Mattesini, F. - Banca d'Italia - 1997
Post-war Italy provides an interesting case to test for recent contributions on economic growth which play down the relevance of physical capital per se and stress its complementarity with infrastructure and less tangible factors such as finance and human capital. In truth, behind the remarkable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486710
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A micro simulation model of demographic development and households' economic behavior in Italy
Ando, Albert; Nicoletti-Altimari, Sergio - Banca d'Italia - 2004
of the processes generating income, social security wealth, retirement and consumption behaviour of households, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113518
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Asking income and consumption questions in the same survey: what are the risks?
Cifaldi, Giulia; Neri, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2013
Sample surveys providing high quality information on both total household expenditure (consumption) and income are not … information on both income and consumption. We combine this survey with the information coming from other surveys that are assumed … lower than the one relating to consumption. As a consequence, in the survey saving rates are likely to be overestimated. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099613
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The geography of income inequality in Italy
Acciari, Paolo; Mocetti, Sauro - Banca d'Italia - 2013
This paper exploits the tax records to analyze the geography of income inequality in Italy. In 2011, the Gini coefficient, the most common measure of inequality, was 40 per cent at national level. In the South it was 3 percentage points higher than in the Centre-North, mainly because of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105116
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Inequality and trust: new evidence from panel data
Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - Banca d'Italia - 2014
The relationship between inequality and trust has attracted the interest of many scholars who have found a negative relationship between the two variables. However, the causal link from inequality to trust is far from being identified and the existing empirical evidence admittedly remains weak,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105137
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Comparative Advantages in Italy: A Long-Run Perspective
Federico, Giovanni; Wolf, Nikolaus - Banca d'Italia - 2011
The history of Italy since her unification in 1861 reflects the two-way relationship between foreign trade and economic development. Its growth was accompanied by a dramatic increase in the country's integration with European and global commodity markets: foreign trade in the long run grew on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548013
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Comparative Advantages in Italy: A Long-Run Perspective
Federico, Giovanni; Wolf, Nikolaus - Banca d'Italia - 2011
The history of Italy since her unification in 1861 reflects the two-way relationship between foreign trade and economic development. Its growth was accompanied by a dramatic increase in the country's integration with European and global commodity markets: foreign trade in the long run grew on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364459
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International specialization models in Latin America: the case of Argentina
Caselli, Paola; Zaghini, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2005
The paper compares the Argentine specialization model with that of the other major Latin American countries. Given the lack of production data at disaggregate level, we rely on trade flow information from the WTA Statistics Canada database (3-digit SITC classification), available for most Latin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005609401
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Infrastructure investments in the main emerging countries
Antonelli, Luca; Bencivelli, Lorenzo; Bucalossi, Annalisa; … - Banca d'Italia - 2014
This paper surveys the current conditions and prospects for the infrastructure sector in seven large emerging countries - Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia and Turkey - assessing the adequacy of their current infrastructural endowment and illustrating the latest government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011100350
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The effects of financial and real wealth on consumption: new evidence from OECD countries
Bonis, Riccardo De; Silvestrini, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2011
In this paper we present new estimates of the effect of households� financial and real wealth on consumption. The … wealth have a positive effect on consumption. Overall, the influence of net financial assets is stronger than that of real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386397