Italy’s overall GDP growth has been dismal in recent years and this poor performance has been compounded by a declining trend in labour productivity and total factor productivity growth. This paper looks into growth accounting and structural indicators and analyses Italy’s performance...

In this paper, we investigate possible sources of declining economic growth performance in Italy starting around the middle of the '90s. A long-run data analysis suggests that the poor performance of the Italian economy cannot be ascribed to an unfortunate business cycle contingency. The rest of...

Italy has probably been one of the first ships to cross the storm of the pandemic, soon after Wuhan in China, and one of the worst performers with a GDP fall of -10% in 2020. The reason is that the pandemic recession has drawn on old structural problems, which already before the pandemic made...

In this paper, we investigate possible sources of declining economic growth performance in Italy starting around the middle of the '90s. A long-run data analysis suggests that the poor performance of the Italian economy cannot be ascribed to an unfortunate business cycle contingency. The rest of...

In this paper, we investigate possible sources of declining economic growth performance in Italy starting around the middle of the '90s. A long-run data analysis suggests that the poor performance of the Italian economy cannot be ascribed to an unfortunate business cycle contingency. The rest of...

Der Aufschwung, in dem sich die deutsche Wirtschaft seit nunmehr 2013 befindet, hat sich merklich beschleunigt. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt dürfte im Jahr 2017 um 2,3 % gestiegen sein. Im laufenden Jahr wird die gesamtwirtschaftliche Produktion voraussichtlich um 2,6 % expandieren und im...

Die ostdeutsche Wirtschaft bleibt auf Wachstumskurs. Jedoch lähmten im ersten Quartal Streiks und die Grippewelle die Produktion. Zudem nahmen die weltwirtschaflichen Risiken wieder zu, wodurch die Unternehmen geplante Investitionen auf-schieben dürfen. Diese Effekte bremsen das Wachstum....