Italian Abstract: Il lavoro riassume la letteratura principale sull'impatto della globalizzazione e della crisi sui sistemi bancari.La conclusione principale è che un approccio più convincente alla regolamentazione finanziaria appare necessario, anche se la completa omogeneizzazione dei...

Italian Abstract: L'autore analizza l'eredità di Luigi Spaventa per la politica economica italiana.Ricostruisce il ruolo di Spaventa in diversi comitati ministeriali e nel dibattito accademico.L'autore attinge a reminiscenze personali presso la Banca d'Italia e il Ministero del tesoro e si...

The work summarises the views on money and credit held by Giannino Parravicini, notable Italian banker and civil servant. Through a review of Parravicini's main works, the author draws a comparison between the problems of regulating the supply of credit in post-war Italy and in the contemporary...

The economic governance of the Eurozone has been substantially improved in the last two years. However, the Eurozone still exhibits a dramatic coordination failure. Economic growth is being invoked, without anybody acting to make it realise. If a common macroeconomic stabilisation device was in...

The low growth rate of Italy, also in international and European context, has led to compare the 50s with the last ten or fifteen. The analysis shows that, apart from the initial liberalization of international trade, the period that saw the most vigorous growth in Italy was characterized from a...

The article is a revised version of a speech the author gave at a conference in memory of Paolo Baffi, former Governor of Italy's Central Bank. The author recalls his personal experience at the Banca d'Italia and his intellectual exchanges with the Governor and other leading officers, within the...

The work summarises the main literature on the impact of globalisation and of the crisis on banking systems.The main conclusion is that a more compelling approach to financial regulation appears as necessary, though the complete homogenisation of financial systems is not a goal to be sought. The...

The author analyses the legacy of Luigi Spaventa for Italy's economic policy. It reconstructs Spaventa's role in several ministerial committees as well as in the academic debate. The author draws on personal reminiscences at the Bank of Italy and the Ministry of Treasury, and focuses in...

he financial market crises in Japan and the United States due to bubbles and the exchange rate, banking and sometimes foreign debt crises that affected in past years South-East Asia, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, and Turkey made for a brief evaluation of the adequacy of national and international...

The fiftieth anniversary of the death of Benvenuto Griziotti, profound scholar of public finance in the first half of the twentieth century, led to re-examine his views on monetary matters. In the first postwar period, for reasons of distributive justice and industrial restructuring, sided with...