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No. 26 - New Time Series on the Activity of Banks and Other Financial Institutions from 1861 to 2011: What Do the Data tell us?
Riccardo De Bonis, Fabio Farabullini, Miria Rocchelli e Alessandra Salvio, June 2012
This paper reconstructs time series for Italy's banks, banks of issue, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti S.p.A. and non-bank financial intermediaries from 1861 to 2011. Statistics refer to the main items of bank balance sheets, currency in circulation, postal saving, bank interest rates, and value added. The paper analyses the main trends of the banking system and other financial corporations since Italian unification.
Text (only in Italian) pdf 4 MB
Data vnd.ms-excel 382 kB
The excel tables contain the data published in the paper. See the appendix of the paper for methods and sources
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