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System-wide stress tests reveal hidden financial contagion risks
A new Banca d'Italia Occasional Paper surveys methodologies and empirical evidence on system-wide stress testing.
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Italian financial sector remains resilient, IMF finds
The International Monetary Fund has concluded its periodic assessment of Italy's financial sector.
Younger professors and female faculty boost student retention
A Bank of Italy working paper examines how faculty age and gender affect university student retention using Italian census data from 2010 to 2021.
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Peers' parental education and occupation drive university enrollment
A new Bank of Italy working paper examines how high school peers' parental education and occupation influence university enrollment.
Balance sheet functioned as monetary policy tool across 20th century
A Banca d'Italia study examining 104 years of historical data shows that the central bank balance sheet functioned de facto as a monetary policy tool throughout the 20th century.
Micro data maps 8,000 Italian firms in auto supply chain
A Banca d'Italia occasional paper published in July 2026 uses transaction-level micro data to map the Italian automotive supply chain.
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Online universities expand Italian higher education access
A Bank of Italy paper examines the demographic profile and academic outcomes of online university students.
Bayesian VAR model forecasts unquoted shares in Italian accounts
Banca d'Italia researcher Michela Eugenia Pasetto has developed a new Bayesian vector autoregression model to forecast unquoted shares of Italian non-financial corporations.
Italian housing prices show 0.7 elasticity to population shifts
A Bank of Italy study examines the link between municipal population dynamics and residential housing prices across Italy from 2010 to 2025.
Bianco outlines concerns on bank account and salary payment bills
Magda Bianco, Head of the Customer Protection and Financial Education Department at Banca d'Italia, testified before the Senate Committee for Finance and the Treasury on July 21, 2026.
Inheritance expectations drive Italian household spending, debt
A Banca d'Italia (BDI) working paper finds that Italian households expecting an inheritance consume more, save less, and take on more consumer debt.
Italian MPCs declined post-Covid, employment shifts weigh on aggregate
A Banca d'Italia paper finds Italy's marginal propensity to consume (MPC) declined in the post-Covid recovery, driven by employment growth concentrated in low-MPC households.