Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - European Central Bank - 2009
Political news in Italy: 1973-2007 11
3 Empirical methodology 12
3.1 Classification of political and other events 12
3 … political and other events that have shaped Italy over
the past four decades, spanning the period 1973-2007. Events covered … argued that the euro is an e�ective "shield"
against �nancial turbulence and geopolitical risks (e.g. Draghi, 2007).
In this …