This paper argues that fixed exchange rate regimes are preferred by the international sector only if they are adopted in economies endowed with anti-inflationary policy-making institutions (i.e., independent central banks). Cross-national firm-level data gives strong support to this claim.

The final step of the European banking union process should be the single deposit guarantee mechanism (SDM) able to allow for bail-in of the banks while the saving system is rescued.If the effectiveness of bank deposit insurance depends on the nature of the financial crisis and the corporate...

The effect of inflation on the capital stock is considered in an overlapping generations framework with a Cash-in-Advance constraint on consumption expenditures. The adjustment mechanism underlying the model is that of a traditional model with the real balance effect on savings.

The literature on the new economy has thus far paid little attention to households' adoption of Information Technologies, leaving unassessed a sizeable part of the IT-led growth. This work fills such a gap carrying out a growth accounting analysis on a wide group of EU countries and the US. It...

Although the crisis emerged in the financial sector, its roots are deeper and lie in a structural change in income distribution that begun in the 1980s. The increase of inequality depressed aggregate demand by the middle-class, while the search for high returns by the wealthiest led to the...

This paper investigates nonlinear effects of government debt on private consumption. The estimated consumption function shows smooth regime switching depending on the debt-to-GDP ratio, and a higher level of government debt crowds out private consumption to a greater extent.

Analytical expectational stability results are obtained for both Euler-equation and infinite-horizon adaptive learning in a simple stochastic growth model. The rational expectations equilibrium is stable under both types of learning, though there are important differences in the learning dynamics.

What is the macroeconomic impact of announcing a pension system reform in advance? The Italian reform in 1992 represents an illustrative case to address this question. Using an overlapping-generations model, we simulate the pre-announcement of five-year increase in the retirement eligibility age...

We analyse Ricardian Equivalence in open economy using a panel of 18 developed countries for 1973-1998. We use a dynamic panel estimated via instrumental variables and we discuss why this specification should be preferred to a static model estimated via ordinary least squares. We find a...