Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Occasional Papers)

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296: The big oil glut: U.S. shale revolution and OPEC countermoves

Riccardo Cristadoro, Virginia Di Nino and Laura Painelli

295: Trade debts of Italian general government: an unsolved problem

Leandro D�Aurizio, Domenico Depalo, Sandro Momigliano and Emilio Vadal�

294: Crime and public procurement, evidence from municipalities

Giuseppe Albanese, Federico Antellini Russo and Roberto Zampino

293: Modelling Italian firms� financial vulnerability

Antonio De Socio and Valentina Michelangeli

292: Measuring the performance of local governments: evidence from mystery calls

Silvia Giacomelli and Marco Tonello

291: Financial support from the family network during the crisis

Laura Bartiloro and Cristiana Rampazzi

290: The growth of the service sector and demand for services

Eliana Viviano

289: Wages and prices in Italy during the crisis: the firms� perspective

Francesco D�Amuri, Silvia Fabiani, Roberto Sabbatini, Raffaele Tartaglia Polcini, Fabrizio Venditti, Eliana Viviano and Roberta Zizza

288: The statistics on poverty and the new World Bank goals of poverty eradication and shared prosperity

Riccardo Settimo

287: On the response of Italian wages to the unemployment rate

Alfonso Rosolia

286: Risk-adjusted expectations of inflation

Marco Casiraghi and Marcello Miccoli

285: Red tape reduction and firm entry: evidence from an Italian reform

Monica Amici, Silvia Giacomelli, Francesco Manaresi and Marco Tonello

284: Trading processing for goods:a different view from the past on Italian trade flows?

Ludovico Bracci, Silvia Fabiani and Alberto Felettigh

283: Investment Dynamics in Italy: Financing Constraints, Demand and Uncertainty

Steve Bond, Giacomo Rodano and Nicolas Serrano-Velarde

282: Deindustrialization and tertiarization: structural changes in North West Italy

Antonio Accetturo, Luciana Aimone, Enrico Beretta, Silvia Camussi, Luigi Cannari, Daniele Coin, Laura Conti, Roberto Cullino, Alessandro Fabbrini, Cristina Fabrizi, Giovanni Iuzzolino, Alessandra Mori, Elisabetta Olivieri, Andrea Orame, Anna Laura Mancini, Elena Mattevi, Paolo Piselli, Davide Revelli, Paola Rossi, Diego Scalise, Alessandra Staderini, Giulia Martina Tanzi and Valerio Vacca

281: �The phenomenal CAT�: firms clawing the goods of others

Virginia Di Nino

280: Reassessing Price-Competitiveness Indicators of the Four Largest Euro-Area Countries and of their Main Trading Partners

Alberto Felettigh, Claire Giordano, Giacomo Oddo and Valentina Romano

279: The impact of lower oil prices on energy expenditure and economic activity

Ivan Faiella and Alessandro Mistretta

278: A note on the implementation of the countercyclical capital buffer in Italy

Piergiorgio Alessandri, Pierluigi Bologna, Roberta Fiori and Enrico Sette

277: Gold as a safe haven asset? Empirical evidence from a comparison of different financial assets

Franco Panfili, Francesco Daini, Francesco Potente and Giuseppe Reale

276: Main drivers of the recent decline in Italy�s non-construction investment

Fabio Busetti, Claire Giordano and Giordano Zevi

275: Changing prices... changing times: evidence for Italy

Silvia Fabiani and Mario Porqueddu

274: Deflation expectations and Japan's lost decade

Roberto Piazza

273: How the time of interviews affects estimates of income and wealth

Giovanni D�Alessio and Stefano Iezzi

272: Income and wealth sample estimates consistent with macro aggregates: some experiments

Giovanni D'Alessio and Andrea Neri

271: Macroprudential policies: a discussion of the main issues

Paolo Angelini

270: The Eurosystem�s asset purchase programmes for monetary policy purposes

Pietro Cova and Giuseppe Ferrero

269: First-time corporate bond issuers in Italy

Matteo Accornero, Paolo Finaldi Russo, Giovanni Guazzarotti and Valentina Nigro

268: Is deflation good or bad? Just mind the inflation gap

Marco Casiraghi and Giuseppe Ferrero

267: Italian students� performance in the PISA digital test

Pasqualino Montanaro and Paolo Sestito

266: Estimating the effects of a credit supply restriction: is there a bias in the Bank Lending Survey?

Andrea Nobili and Andrea Orame

265: Inflation surprises and inflation expectations in the euro area

Marcello Miccoli and Stefano Neri

264: Bank localism and financial crisis

Cristina Demma

263: The real estate market, the supply chain and credit: the effects of the great recession

Cristina Fabrizi, Raffaella Pico, Luca Casolaro, Mariano Graziano, Elisabetta Manzoli, Sonia Soncin, Luciano Esposito, Giuseppe Saporito and Tiziana Sodano

262: The market for corporate debt private placements

Nicola Branzoli and Giovanni Guazzarotti

261: The Italian Firms� International Activity

Riccardo Cristadoro and Leandro D�Aurizio

260: The internationalization of the Italian productive system

Riccardo Cristadoro and Stefano Federico

259: Tracking banks' systemic importance before and after the crisis

Piergiorgio Alessandri, Sergio Masciantonio and Andrea Zaghini

258: Easier said than done: the divergence between soft and hard data

Antonio Conti and Concetta Rondinelli

257: Medium-term forecasting of euro-area macroeconomic variables with DSGE and BVARX models

Lorenzo Burlon, Simone Emiliozzi, Alessandro Notarpietro and Massimiliano Pisani

256: Assessing potential growth in emerging countries after the global financial crisis

Enrica Di Stefano and Daniela Marconi

255: Financial shocks and the real economy in a nonlinear world: a survey of the theoretical and empirical literature

Andrea Silvestrini and Andrea Zaghini

254: A feasible unemployment-based shock absorber for the Euro Area

Andrea Brandolini, Francesca Carta and Francesco D'Amuri

253: Accounting for total work

Andrea Brandolini and Eliana Viviano

252: Deflationary shocks and de-anchoring of inflation expectations

Fabio Busetti, Giuseppe Ferrero, Andrea Gerali and Alberto Locarno

251: Do firm-bank relationships affect firms' internationalization?

Riccardo De Bonis, Giovanni Ferri and Zeno Rotondi

250: Beyond the acronyms: local property taxation in Italy

Giovanna Messina and Marco Savegnago

249: The World Bank's procurement competition and the Italian construction industry

Michele Benvenuti, Luca Casolaro, Tindaro Paganini and Umberto Viviani

248: Domestic and foreign sales: complements or substitutes?

Matteo Bugamelli, Eugenio Gaiotti and Eliana Viviano

247: How the labour market evaluates Italian universities

Emanuele Ciani and Vincenzo Mariani