Many authors underlined the convergence of financial structures towards a model which combines elements of the Anglo Saxon one, where markets prevail, with characteristics of the continental European systems, where intermediaries are predominant. The goal of this paper is to study financial...

This paper looks at Italy's financial growth since 1950. We study the changes in household wealth, corporate indebtedness, the balance sheet structure of financial institutions, especially banks. At the end the paper summarises the main trends in the evolution of financial assets and liabilities...

The paper offers a comparative analysis of household wealth in the main industrial countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, France, Germany and Spain. Particular attention is devoted to Italy. We distinguish between financial wealth, real assets, indebtedness, and net...

This paper analyses aggregate household wealth in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the UK and the US. Building on a new data set for the time span 1980-2011, we discuss the trends in household financial assets in the last thirty years, the reasons for differences across countries,...