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Italy's merchandise transport costs stable, deficit widens
A Banca d'Italia survey for 2025 shows Italy's merchandise transport costs remained stable for exports at 2.6 percent and slightly decreased for imports to 4.1 percent.
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Molise economy stationary in 2025, activity reduced by 0.1 percent
The Banca d'Italia's annual report on the economy of Molise for 2025 indicates a largely stationary performance.
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Basilicata economy stagnates in 2025 amid industrial decline
Banca d'Italia's 2025 annual report on Basilicata's economy reveals stagnation, primarily due to a negative performance in the industrial sector.
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Dolomites UNESCO status boosts tourism, cuts waste
A Banca d'Italia Occasional Paper finds the 2009 UNESCO listing of the Dolomites significantly increased tourism demand by 9.1 percent.
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China Shock 2.0: Export surge reduces investments
A Banca d'Italia paper finds China's export surge, driven by weak domestic demand and tech upgrades, creates disinflationary pressure and competition for the euro area.
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LLMs use Reddit data to improve US inflation forecasts
A Banca d'Italia paper demonstrates that large language models can transform Reddit discussions into timely predictors of US inflation.
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Housework imbalance impacts fertility and female employment
A Banca d'Italia study finds that unequal housework distribution significantly impacts female employment and fertility rates.
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Banca d'Italia releases eight new research papers
Banca d'Italia has released three new Working Papers and five new Occasional Papers.
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Nowcasting Italian CPI with online prices and machine learning
A new Banca d'Italia Occasional Paper explores using real-time online food price data and machine learning to nowcast the Italian Consumer Price Index.
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Floating-rate debt amplifies tightening for euro area firms
A Banca d'Italia working paper quantifies how floating-rate debt amplified the 2022-23 monetary tightening for euro area firms.
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Monetary policy impacts euro area industries asymmetrically
A Banca d'Italia working paper finds that monetary policy shocks transmit asymmetrically across euro-area manufacturing industries.
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New method measures credit reallocation in Italy
Banca d'Italia researchers developed a new methodology to estimate cross-elasticities in credit markets, applying it to twenty years of Italian data.