Summary Comparing the impact of different types of credit on households' investment in Bangladesh, we find that loans from microfinance institutions are likely to be channeled toward non-agricultural activities while both informal and bank lending are associated to a higher expenditure in...

This study aims to investigate the demographic, social, and economic drivers of rising abstention and populist electoral success in Italy in 2018. The Italian case is unique in the euro area because, in the political elections of 4 March 2018, two parties usually identified as left-wing and...

This study is a first attempt to map non-criminal legal needs of prisoners by means of a peer-setting survey. The investigation has been carried out in 2014 in two Italian prisons. Evidence shows that prisoners’ legal needs are mainly related to family law matters, property law issues and...

Anecdotal evidence exists that migrants experience difficulties in complying with Italian immigration rules (i.e. permit of stay applications and renewals) because of an intricate and inconstant legal framework. As a consequence, migrants often need legal assistance in order to regularize their...

We empirically investigate whether central bank independence (CBI) and the monetary policy setting can jointly influence the likelihood that policymakers assign banking supervision to central banks. We find that, conditional on the government being a benevolent one, higher central bank...