This paper examines regional inflation divergence within the European EMU aiming at characterizing the properties of inflation differentials. The empirical evidence suggests that a process of price level convergence in the EMU is well on its way.

The paper considers several approaches to the measurement of firms� tax burden in order to identify significant indicators for the banking sector. It also analyses features of tax provisions which are peculiar to the Italian system. On these bases, it looks at measures affecting the tax...

Italian Abstract: In questo scritto si commenta la pronuncia della Corte di giustizia dell’Unione europea (in seguito ‘CGUE’ o la ‘Corte’), prima sezione, del 20 gennaio 2021 relativa al caso Lexel AB (nel prosieguo ‘Lexel’). Questa sentenza è stata emessa senza le conclusioni...

In Italy the rate of growth of GDP has declined over the period 2000-2006, after joining the single currency. The decrease is not incidental, but it has a structural and long-term nature, so this decrease relates to the potential growth. This weakening of growth takes place in an international...

In Italy the rate of growth of GDP has declined over the period 2000-2007, after joining the single currency. The decrease is not incidental, but it has a structural and long-term nature, so this decrease relates to the potential growth. This weakening of growth takes place in an international...

This paper combines the literature on financial crises with that on international immigrations by investigating whether the increasingly large flows of workers� remittances can help reduce the probability of current account reversals. The rationale for this stands in the great stability and...

Italian Abstract: Il funzionamento dei mercati finanziari richiede l’esistenza di infrastrutture per la conclusione degli scambi degli operatori. Queste devono essere sicure, efficienti e in grado di assicurare l’ordinato svolgimento delle operazioni che vi si effettuano. Lo Statuto del SEBC...

Italian Abstract: All'interno dell'UE, la percezione che la convergenza sull'attuale insieme di regole non sia in grado di produrre convergenza sui risultati, o risultati generalmente migliori, ha aumentato la frammentazione socio-politica. Il risultato è stata una crescente domanda di...