Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/113332 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
EUROMOD Working Paper No. EM7/15
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
The Italian Great Recession has a double-dip pattern. After the start of the global financial crisis, Italy experienced a second serious recession in 2011 because of the sovereign debt crisis. The reaction of Italian governments was mild at the beginning and more convinced since the start of the sovereign debt crisis in 2011. Adopted policies contributed to realign public finances at a sustainable level, while household real income decreased by 13 per cent and quite unevenly along the household income distribution. The medium-term outlook is still uncertain: a great deal depends on the capacity of the Italian economy to reduce the level of public debt and to return to sustained economic growth, which has been very weak for more than a decade.
Subjects: 
Great Recession
Italy
net borrowing
debt
microsimulation
public finance
JEL: 
H12
H62
H63
H68
H50
I31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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