Foreign people face increasing housing problems in Italy. The goal of the paper is the analysis of these difficulties through an empirical investigation, based on data of a direct survey on estate agencies, which in Italy represent the main brokers in the housing market. The results highlight...

This paper provide a review of housing policies implemented in the Municipality of Modena for those tenants living in unaffordable housing. In the first part of the paper we analyze demand and supply for each of these policies, our sources being microdata from the Municipality: we find that...

During the last two decades, house prices in Italy have increased dramatically in real terms, particularly in large towns and cities; the rise in rents has been even more marked. This paper analyses home affordability for households, considering both the rent and the property markets. In...

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...

Italian Abstract: La filiera del settore immobiliare contribuisce per oltre un quinto al prodotto interno lordo; la sua rilevanza per il sistema bancario è ancora più elevata: il credito concesso alle imprese del comparto supera il 34 per cento dei finanziamenti al settore privato. La...

This paper discusses the labour supply effects of the income tax provisions enacted in Italy in the period 1998-2002. Indeed, these represent an interesting case-study to evaluate how responsive labour supply and participation decisions are to tax reforms in Italy. I use a behavioural...

La dinamica dell’occupazione indipendente in Italia mostra aspetti peculiari rispetto a quelli che caratterizzano gli altri paesi europei. Questo saggio presenta i contributi che la letteratura straniera e quella italiana hanno dato nell’interpretare tale espansione e sottolinea...

Tra le proposte di riforma fiscale avanzate nel secondo dopoguerra assumono particolare enfasi quelle presenti nelle posizioni di Visentini e Cosciani, espresse nel 1948 in seno alla Commissione Vanoni; posizioni intorno alle quali ruoterà tutto il dibattito relativo alle ipotesi di riforma...