This paper reviews the main macroeconomic trends and the debate on policy priorities in Italy since the end of the … Nineties. In the decade up to the outbreak of the global crisis (1998-2007), in Italy the reform process came to a virtual … factors masked the difficulties of the productive system. Had Italy been better positioned in terms of public finances and …

at the Bank of Italy. According to our results, a level of carbon taxation within the range of €50-200 per ton does not …

emphasis on the data for Italy in the international context. The paper examines households' socio-demographic characteristics …, assets and income distribution, participation in real and financial assets and indebtedness levels. The results for Italy … reveal a mean household gross income below the euro-area average. The concentration of income in Italy is roughly positioned …

This paper compares two indicators of household vulnerability using the Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and …

Since 2015 consumer loans have been rising fast in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Credit demand, specifically for … consumer durables, has played a crucial role; the easing of supply conditions has been relevant only in Italy and Spain, which … decreasing due to the high share of fixed-rate contracts. There is wide risk heterogeneity across countries, with Italy and Spain …

to the Italian case from 2008 to 2014 by using the wide array of information available from the Bank of Italy's survey on …