New releases of Working Papers and Occasional Papers of the Bank of Italy - 19 October 2021

19 October 2021

Today the Bank of Italy has released three new Working Papers (nn. 1351-1353) and four new Occasional Papers (nn. 646-649).

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No. 1353 - Does information about current inflation affect expectations and decisions? Another look at Italian firms
expectations, experimental data, information, communication, learning
No. 1352 - Collateral in bank lending during the financial crises: a borrower and a lender story
bank-lending channel, collateral, financial crises
No. 1351 - Revisiting the case for a fiscal union: the federal fiscal channel of downside-risk sharing in the United States
downside risk, risk sharing, fiscal unions
No. 649 - Pecunia olet. Cash usage and the underground economy
shadow economy, tax evasion, cash threshold, bank branches, ATM, cashless payments
No. 648 - The poverty debate in Italy: from politics to statistics
poverty, social exclusion, relative and absolute thresholds, Italy
No. 647 - The impact of Covid-19 on international tourism flows to Italy: evidence from mobile phone data
international tourism, travel restrictions, Covid-19
No. 646 - Mind the wealth gap: a new allocation method to match micro and macro statistics on household wealth
wealth distribution, non-response, measurement error, Pareto distribution, survey calibration, household finance and consumption survey