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Italy's economic stagnation is a matter of fiscal, national, and European concern. Since a good remedy requires an … Italy's recent economic record, the paper reviews three families of explanations: "unwillingness to reform" accounts … this synthesis, the paper argues that Italy's recent stagnation can be traced back to two key moments: first, a failed …
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inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …
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We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry ("narrow off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity...
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directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state …
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The rapidly aging populations of many developed countries--most notably Japan and member countries of the European Union--present obvious problems for the public pension plans of these countries. Not only will there be disproportionately fewer workers making pension contributions than there are...
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