Bonis, Riccardo De; Silvestrini, Andrea - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 8 (2014) 3, pp. 301-334
In this paper, we investigate the main features of the Italian financial cycle, extracted by means of a structural trend-cycle decomposition of the credit-to-GDP ratio, using annual observations from 1861 to 2011. In order to draw conclusions based on solid historical data, we provide a thorough...