to invest abroad is positively related to their productivity and the size of their intangible assets. …

Italy’s deep-rooted structural problems resulted in an unsatisfactory productivity performance and a dismal growth … decline in output is mainly accounted for by a collapse in productivity; in the medium term, employment and capital are also …

claims in Italy as a key way to improve the environment for sustaining economic growth. There has been considerable interest … in the possibility of introducing a comprehensive wealth tax in Italy, reflecting the public resistance to spending …

In Italy, price-based competitiveness measures are not always an accurate predictor of trade outcomes. This paper … Italy’s export market share. Overall, Italy maintains a high-quality export mix, and the adaptability of small … sectors are weighed down by the structural barriers that have depressed productivity more broadly. Italy’s future …

This paper leverages the IMF’s Financial Access Survey (FAS) database to construct a new composite index of financial … composite index uses factor analysis to derive a weighting methodology whose absence has been the most persistent of the … criticisms of previous indices. Countries are then ranked based on the new composite index, providing an additional analytical …