. Through both a comparative perspective and an explorative case study of Italy, this paper asks two research questions. Firstly …, it asks who holds government debt in Spain, France, Germany, and Italy. I focus in on Italy to provide, to the author …’s knowledge, the first highly disaggregated view of the holding structure of public debt. Secondly, for Italy I study …

Italy's economic stagnation is a matter of fiscal, national, and European concern. Since a good remedy requires an … Italy's recent economic record, the paper reviews three families of explanations: "unwillingness to reform" accounts … this synthesis, the paper argues that Italy's recent stagnation can be traced back to two key moments: first, a failed …