Italian Abstract: Il rischio sistemico, che le politiche macroprudenziali hanno l'obiettivo di minimizzare, è in pratica assai difficile da identificare ex ante. La ricerca di indicatori che potrebbero consentire di attivare le politiche macroprudenziali con un anticipo sufficiente a evitare o...

Risky investment projects make the coordination among small, uninformed investors hard to achieve, and generate inefficient low levels of investment. Several authors have pointed out the benefits to an economy from multiple avenues of financial intermediation. This paper explains endogenously...

This paper investigates the effects of the increasing activity of foreign banks in Italy, distinguishing between credit granted to households and firms. Foreign banks display a differentiated degree of business expansion across the provinces, we exploit this variability to measure how foreign...

This paper looks at the recent debt crisis in Greece and argues that the crisis exemplifies a sequence of systematic mistakes made by International Financial Institutions, mistakes whose consequences had been clearly anticipated at the time of the first bail-out and could have been avoided. I...

Italian Abstract: Questo lavoro prende in considerazione la recente crisi di debito della Grecia e sostiene che questa mostra una serie di errori sistematici fatto dalle Istituzioni Finanziarie Internazionali, le cui conseguenze erano state chiaramente anticipate sin dal primo intervento di...

Itallian Abstract: L'articolo introduce il nuovo numero della rivista, revisionando i contributi in esso contenuti, e inserendoli in un contesto. L'autore discute le recenti tendenze della politica economica europea, con particolare attenzione ai suoi trascurati spillover, sia internazionali che...

This paper looks at the recent debt crisis in Greece and argues that the crisis exemplifies a sequence of systematic mistakes made by International Financial Institutions, mistakes whose consequences had been clearly anticipated at the time of the first bail-out and could have been avoided. I...

A high share of foreign currency denomination of domestic public debt in rules out any recourse to inflation tax as an effective adjustment device. Anti- inflation policies based upon hard peg regimes may remove the exchange rate risk in the short run but - as pointed out by Argentina’s...

Statistical measurement of Italy�s international investment position is subject to considerable uncertainty, owing essentially to the presence of errors and omissions in the balance of payments. The entries under this item became very substantial at the start of the 1990s, coinciding with...

Italian Abstract: In questo saggio vengono esaminati gli effetti di ampie manovre di politica di bilancio, ovvero di un consolidamento e di uno stimolo fiscale nei diciotto stati membri dell'Eurozona, in un periodo di riferimento che va dal 1980 al 2015. L'evidenza empirica dimostra che nel caso...