The publication of the second edition of Fratianni and Spinelli's monetary History of Italy offers the opportunity to analyze the causes behind the inflation pattern in Italy in the three decades preceding the entry of the country in the European Monetary Union. The two authors reconstruct the...

This paper provides evidence on price markup and inflation dynamics in Italy over the period 1970-1998. We investigate the price mark-up on imported and labor costs and its relation to inflation, using cointegration techniques. It is found that, despite different policy regimes across decades,...

The aim of this paper is to describe the features of a monetary economy on the basis of Keynes's distinction between a real exchange economy and a monetary economy.As is well known, Keynes uses the former term to refer to an economy in which money is merely a tool to reduce the cost of exchanges...

The loanable funds theory (hereinafter: LFT) has met a paradoxical fate. Although the fundamental elements of this theory have been accepted by the mainstream monetary theory, few contemporary economists quote it explicitly.1 An important exception can be found in the text of Woodford (2003)...

The endogenous money theory constitutes the core element of the post-keynesian monetary theory. The first formulation of this theory can be found in the works of Kaldor published in the 1970s. Taking these studies as a starting point, the post-keynesians elaborated two versions of the endogenous...

Since the 1960s Tobin has set himself the objective of developing a macroeconomic model more general than that specified by Keynes in The General Theory. Keynes had assumed that all the assets different from money were perfect substitutes; this hypothesis allowed him to explain only one interest...

Economic theory has not paid much attention to the topic of firm financing; this lack of interest was common to the two principal macroeconomic theories, the Keynesian theory and the Monetarist one. This work considers two important exceptions to the mainstream theory. The first coincides with...

In the last 20 years, the New Keynesians (henceforth, NKs) have developed a theoretical approach which aims to elaborate an alternative monetary theory to the on traditionally associated with Keynes. The distinctive feature of this new approach is its emphasis on the credit market and the role...

Up to a few years ago, economic theory did not pay any attention to the topic of firm financing. This situation has changed in recent years thanks to the development of a theorical approach that has applied the conclusions of information economics to the analysis of the working of the financial...

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the fact that the asymmetric information approach does not constitute the only theorical framework which gives provinence to the issue of firm financing; a meaningful theory could be elaborated on the basis of the works of Keynes and Schumpeter