Can the media play a significant role in shaping pricing behaviour at retail level? What empirical evidence, particularly for inflation after the euro changeover? A model of the news impact on inflation is constructed in terms of a sticky-information Phillips curve with an epidemiology approach...

Difficulties in finding appropriate financing weigh heavily on the ability to grow of Italy’s small enterprises, due to their narrow equity base and limited access to credit markets. The State Fund for guarantees to SMEs is one of the instruments used to overcome such difficulties. This essay...