Italy’s debt: Is the bark worse than the bite?
By Céline Antonin The spectre of a sovereign debt crisis in Italy is rattling the euro zone. Since Matteo Salvini and Luigi di Maio came […]
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Italy: The horizon seems to be clearing
By Céline Antonin With growth in Italy of 0.4% in the third quarter of 2017 (see table below), the country’s economy seems to have recovered […]
Italy and the labour market: improvement, with caveats
By Céline Antonin Since early 2015, the renewal of growth in Italy, the implementation of Act II of Matteo Renzi’s Jobs Act, and the reduction […]
Matteo Renzi’s Jobs Act: A very guarded optimism
By Céline Antonin At a time when the subject of labour market reform has aroused passionate debate in France, Italy is drawing some initial lessons […]
Investment behaviour during the crisis: a comparative analysis of the main advanced economies
By Bruno Ducoudré, Mathieu Plane and Sébastien Villemot This text draws on the special study, Équations d’investissement : une comparaison internationale dans la crise [Investment equations : an international comparison […]
Labour market reform in Italy: Matteo Renzi up against the wall
By Céline Antonin While Matteo Renzi had enjoyed a relative “state of grace” since his election in February 2014, the Senate vote in early December […]
Austerity without end – or, how Italy found itself trapped by European rules
By Raul Sampognaro If the budget submitted by France is out of step with the rules on fiscal governance in the euro area (see the […]
And what if Italy’s elections turned out to be an opportunity for Europe ?
By Franscesco Saraceno The whole of Europe is currently fretting about the election results in Italy. The Centre-Left coalition won a narrow majority – because […]
Who will pay the bill in Sicily?
by Augusto Hasman and Maurizio Iacopetta Rumors of a Sicily’s possible default are in the air again. The employees of the Sicilian parliament did […]