M. Messori: The potentials and the dangers of the Italian economy in a renewed euro area

Overcoming the political and institutional tensions that have characterized Italy in the last fourteen months opens up n...

September 12, 2019

A. Franconi: Mini-Bot: Ingenuity or Ignorance

With the infringement procedure launched by the European Union against Italy in December 2017 (not to be confused with t...

September 6, 2019

M. Buti, M. Krobath: Should the eurozone be less intergovernmental?

Since the economic and financial crisis, the institutional landscape in the EU has changed. While no structure in the EU...

August 30, 2019

S. Bernardini, C. Cottarelli, G. Galli, C. Valdes – REDUCING PUBLIC DEBT: THE EXPERIENCE OF ADVANCED ECONOMIES OVER THE LAST 70 YEARS

This paper investigates the episodes of public debt reduction in advanced economies since the Second World War. We find ...

July 31, 2019

C. Bastasin: Will the European deficit procedure determine the future of Italy’s political equilibrium?

On June 5, 2019, the EU Commission assessed, in its Report from the Commission – COM(2019) 532 final “Italy, Rep...

July 24, 2019

C. Bastasin: Secular Divergence – Explaining Nationalism in Europe

The doctrine of nationalism, hinging on a primacy of the cultural, civic or ethnic unit of one nation vis-à-vis other ...

April 24, 2019

C. Bastasin: The economic consequences of Italian political isolation

In about two months’ time, European citizens will be voting on their representatives in the European Parliament. T...

March 27, 2019

L. Bini Smaghi: What Future for the European Banking System?

The European banking sector is going through complicated times. Its performance over the last decade diverged widely fro...

March 13, 2019

S. Micossi – Testing the EU Framework for the Recovery and Resolution of Banks: the Italian Experience

The financial crisis of 2008-09 and the ensuing sovereign debt and banking crises within the Eurozone exposed the presen...

February 15, 2019

C. Brescia Morra: From the Single Supervisory Mechanism to the Banking Union

The agreement on the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) is an important step to create an integrated banking system in E...

June 25, 2014

P. Canofari, G. Marini, G. Piersanti: Expectations and Systemic Risk in EMU Government Bond Spreads

This paper explores the determinants of 10-years sovereign bond spreads over the German Bund benchmark in the Euro Zone ...

June 18, 2014

C. Fassio: Sectoral Systems or Distance-to-the-Frontier Effects on Innovation?

This study analyzes empirically whether the Sectoral Systems of Innovation or the Distance- to-the-Frontier perspective ...

June 10, 2014