’s prosperity. The paper focuses on olitical events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in … 1999 has helped insulate Italy’s financial markets from the adverse consequences of its traditionally unstable political … system. We find that important political events have exerted a statistically and economically significant effect on Italy …

at a time-varying VAR model of Italy’s relative performance compared with the rest of the euro area, spanning from 1976 …

This paper analyses and compares the roles which Belgium and Italy have played in the process of European monetary … of the Belgian and Italian EMU strategies and the concrete contributions made by Belgium and Italy. Overall, these two … European Act and the realisation of EMU, whereas Italy was mainly active in the 1980s. This assessment of the Belgian and …