In the Italian experience, the role played by short-term Treasury bonds the financing of the public deficit seems to he more relevant than in other industrialized countries. This circumstance means that practical problems arise in the public debt management. These difficulties can be fruitfully...

Services are increasingly important in the output of modern economies and are increasingly traded internationally. These patterns are observed in the generality of both 'developed' and 'developing' economies. This paper discusses the policy needs to understand the impact of services on the...

Over the last three decades, a number of frameworks have been developed to promote and measure well-being, quality of life, human development and sustainable development. Some frameworks use a conceptual approach while others employ a consultative approach, and different initiatives to measure...

Standard theory describes economic decisions as the result of optimising behaviour of well-informed economic agents. However, whether citizens are really well informed on economic data is still highly disputed. In order to investigate on this issue, since 2007 the Italian Consumers survey has...

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