Jappelli, Tullio; Marino, Immacolata; Padula, Mario - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2015
In this paper we review household saving and debt trends in Italy. We summarize the available empirical evidence on Italians' motives to save, relying on macroeconomic indicators and data drawn from the Bank of Italy's Surveys of Household Income and Wealth from 1984 to 2012. The macroeconomic...