This publication analyses developments in 2011 and the early months of 2012 in terms of economic activity, the labour market, regional cohesion policies, and credit aggregates in the four Italian macro-regions.
In this number the boxes focus on: the dynamics of Italian exports of precious metals, the effect on sales of strategies undertaken by Italian firms to diversify their markets and products at the beginning of the financial and economic crisis; the recent dynamics of hiring and firing in Italian manufacturing and services firms; an analysis of the level and concentration of wealth among Italian households; the banks' assessment of credit supply and demand; and the financial assets of Italian households
