Regional disparities, Italian or European pain?

Territorial gaps do not affect Italy only, but, unlike its main European partners, the country exhibits greater inequalities within its weakest regions

Capital rules provide good news for banks’ credit facilities

The proposal not only incorporates some international technical standards and increasing banks’ lending capacity

A new index of macroeconomic uncertainty for Italy

The index builds on news texts and sentiment analysis, i.e., a measure of the distribution of heterogeneous sentiment levels

Goodbye EONIA, welcome ESTER. Standby for “Eurhybrid”

The interbank market interest rate revolution has begun: 2019 is the year of the ESTER, while for the Euribor its hybrid form will have to wait until 2022

The Italian incentive for eco-cars? Not for all

Income, environmental awareness, and the existence of adequate infrastructure affect the preference for electric cars

Public support in bank crisis management: from theory to practice

The solutions for bailing out a failing bank introduced by the BRRD

Fiscal policy can help countries adapt to climate change

In a recent analysis prepared for the World Bank, we addressed how governments can foster climate change adaptation policies

Public debt held by non-residents: a measure of confidence 

Focus on euro area countries with a high debt-to-GDP ratio: Belgium, Italy, Portugal and Spain

Income, an unstable equilibrium across generations

For Generation X and the millennials, the income growth path is more disappointing than that of one's own parents; a change of course can only leverage education

Economic growth is essential to reduce the burden of public debt