This paper introduces a framework to jointly account for the affordability of the periodic repayment of the housing debt (income constraint) and of the initial deposit (budget constraint). An application to 2006-2012 micro-data on Italian households indicates that the improvement in the ability...

Nowadays Italian borrowers can choose among a variety of mortgage contracts. Using a special Bank of Italy survey on 400 Italian banks over the period 2006-2013, we analyse the supply of ‘non-conventional' mortgages (loan-to-value ratio greater than 80 per cent, duration longer than 30 years...

The paper reviews the supply of different mortgage instruments to Italian households by means of data obtained from a survey conducted in 2007 by the Bank of Italy over more than 300 banks. The results document significant innovations in housing finance in the last five years: a greater variety...

This paper depicts – from a variety of viewpoints – the degree of indebtedness and potential financial vulnerabilities of households across the Italian regions. Micro-data from several sources suggest that the financial situation of Italian households shows striking differences at...

Italian Abstract: Il debt advice indica un insieme di attività finalizzate a fornire assistenza personalizzata e trasversale (tecnico-operativa, legale, psicologica, sociale) a favore di consumatori in situazioni di difficoltà finanziaria. Nel dibattito europeo viene considerato uno strumento...

Financial inclusion has received growing attention over the years as an enabling factor for promoting growth, reducing inequalities, and addressing poverty. In order to support policy choices aimed at enhancing financial inclusion, we investigate its main drivers, with a special focus on...

Italian Abstract:Nel lavoro si analizzano i divari territoriali della produttività totale dei fattori (TFP) stimata a livello di impresa per le società di capitali manifatturiere tra il 1995 e il 2015. Nell'anno più recente la TFP media nel Mezzogiorno era tra il 14 e il 33 per cento...

We build a microsimulation model to monitor the financial vulnerability of Italian households. Starting from household-level data from the Survey on Household Income and Wealth and matching them with macroeconomic forecasts on debt and income, we project the future path of households'...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro analizza l'uso del contante in Italia e degli altri strumenti di pagamento presso i punti di vendita (POS) utilizzando i dati del campione italiano dell'indagine Study on the Use of Cash by Households (SUCH) condotta dalla BCE nel 2016. L'obiettivo dello studio era...

The Covid-19 pandemic led to a large and immediate decline in households’ aggregate spending and a surge in bank and postal deposits; although little is known about how this was distributed. This paper overcomes the lack of timely micro-data on households’ liquidity by looking at supervisory...