Bencek, David; Schrader, Klaus - 2018
The authors show that despite its high debt-to-GDP ratio and increasing risk premia on government bonds, Italy's public … Italy has been growing more slowly than the EU average since the 1990s, as not only the poorer regions in the south are … weakening, but also the "rich North" has lost its role as growth engine. According to the authors, Italy's chronic growth …