This paper analyses aggregate household wealth in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the UK and the US. Building on a new data set for the time span 1980-2011, we discuss the trends in household financial assets in the last thirty years, the reasons for differences across countries,...

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...

According to macroeconomic predictions firms are expected to be net borrowers: the net change of their financial assets should be smaller than the net change of their financial liabilities. However, since the mid-1990s, the non–financial sector has been on average a net lender in countries...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro analizza l'evoluzione della ricchezza delle famiglie in una prospettiva di lungo periodo, confrontando i cambiamenti del portafoglio finanziario e delle attività non finanziarie in Italia con le dinamiche di altre economie avanzate. In Italia la ricchezza reale è...

The goal of this paper is to investigate the link between the length of a firm-bank relationship and firm's internationalization. The analysis is carried out on matched firm-bank micro-data from a survey of Italian enterprises from 1998 to 2003. We obtain two main results. First, a longer...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro ricostruisce le serie storiche annuali degli aggregati monetari italiani. Rispetto a contributi precedenti, dedicati a periodi circoscritti dell'economia italiana, il lavoro copre l'intervallo 1861-2014; migliora la qualità di serie storiche del passato e fornisce...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro analizza per la prima volta il corpus linguistico delle Considerazioni finali (CF di seguito). La prima parte riassume le caratteristiche del data-set, costituito da circa 850.000 parole. La seconda parte esamina i temi affrontati dai Governatori in settanta anni di...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro analizza i risultati dell’Indagine sull’Alfabetizzazione e le Competenze Finanziarie degli Italiani (IACOFI), condotta dalla Banca d’Italia all’inizio del 2020 seguendo la metodologia OCSE-INFE che definisce l’indicatore di competenze finanziarie come la...

The paper summarizes the debate about the proposed introduction of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). We place the CBDC in the wider context of the different types of money used in market economies. We explore the most important ideas on why economic agents use money, on the history of...

This work provides a comprehensive overview of the giant leap made by European central bank statistics over the last quarter century. We illustrate, first, the work that led to a brand new set of central bank statistics for the implementation of the common monetary policy in the euro area. We...