schwachen wirtschaftlichen Dynamik in Italien grundsätzlich ändern würden. … gives an overview of the economic situation in Italy from a macroeconomic perspective and evaluates recent reform …

s differed from its predecessors in three important respects: productivity, inflation, and cyclical variability. In the … United States, labor productivity increased much faster in the 1990s than in the previous decades and, contrary to the usual … pattern, accelerated with the duration of the expansion. The view that most of the productivity acceleration was only cyclical …