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By Mario Baldassarri

ISBN-10: 0312100698

ISBN-13: 9780312100698

ISBN-10: 1349231134

ISBN-13: 9781349231133

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ISBN-13: 9781349231157

In fresh a long time, the Italian "phenomenon" has frequently come less than shut scrutiny as experts of the sphere tried to appreciate the workings of an financial system perceived as being slightly unusual: international commentators particularly regularly wavered among forewarnings of inevitable crises and decline, and resounding compliment of unforeseen and astounding luck. despite the fact that, harsh and one-sided price decisions needs to be shunned if the Italian method is to be really understood. in truth, the obvious political instability coexists along the soundness of presidency, overseas alliances and inner affairs in different Western democracies, and higher epitomized within the jap adventure. This ebook includes 5 essays by way of Italian economists who supply an research of the "new miracle" of the Eighties - the broad and deep business restructuring technique which gave new impulse to Italy's financial progress - and the Nineteen Nineties "nightmare" - the explosion of either govt deficit and debt, and the problems of working a restoration course towards the Maastricht parameters to fulfill the points in time of the eu unification strategy.

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7 Italy: the Real Effects of Inflation and Disinflation 37 GRAPH 4 THE REAL EXCHANGE RATE IN A DISINFLATION (relative unit labour costs) 160 :}, :Jf 'T,\,--.. --. ,-t 1~ 1m 1m 1m 1m 1~ 1~ 1~ 1~ 1~ 1~ 1~ Source: lMF: «International Financial Statistics•, Supplement on Price Statistics, 1986. inflows. Not only was the exchange rate not allowed to appreciate but, on the contrary, the authorities pursued a deliberate policy of real depreciation inspired by several motives. First, there was the need to replenish foreign exchange reserves.

As the data available gradually increased, so the empirical analyses became numerous and broader and more articulated. Setting aside some simplistic interpretations which tend to ascribe the restructuring to a single cause (exchangerate policies) or to a single player (entrepreneurs, trade unions, the government), a number of articulated models appeared in the literature. We refer in particular to the role of relative prices in guiding the allocation of resources and to their importance, together with technical progress, in generating restructuring processes (Heimler and Milana [13]).

D) cumulated output loss .......................... ••••••••• 0 •••••••••••••• 0 ••• 0. Sacrifice ratios: unemployment measure (c)/(a) .................... (d) .................... (a) .................... (b) .... - ............... 08 (*) Cumulative output loss: sum of deviations from trend GDP growth (log-linear trend: 1970-1987); cumulative increase in unemployment: sum of year to year changes in OECD standardized unemployment. Sources: OECD: Economic Outlook, except unemployment for Italy from BANCA D'ITAUA, Annual Report, 1988.

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