The article provides an analysis of some features of Italian Credit System. In particular, it focuses on a comparison of efficiency - in terms of costs, revenues and profits - of banks in Northern and Southern Italy using the balance sheet data set ABI from 1994 to 1998. In addition, in order to...

The paper examines the Italian wage curve using the Capitalia survey of the Italian manufacturing firms over the 1998-2000 period, which contains data on about 4021 firms, and the Bank of Italy’s Historical Database from the Survey of Italian Household Budgets (1977-2000) over the period...

<em>The Italian Wage Curve. The Effects of the Recent Labour Market Reforms</em> - The paper examines some effects of the recent reforms aimed at increasing flexibility in the Italian labour market. It shows their incapability to respond to the "inclusion" problem which still characterises the country....