Monetary History of Italy

Klappentext A comprehensive study of the evolution of Italy's money and banking systems since 1861. Zusammenfassung This volume is a comprehensive analysis of the banking and monetary history of Italy from 1861 to 1992. It contributes in a novel way not only to the monetary debate! but also to the fiscal and institutional questions. The authors combine economic theory! statistical data and history in an accessible way. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; Preface; 1. Structure, main themes and data of the monetary history; 2. Money growth and its determinants; 3. From political unification to 1913: creation of a new currency, multiplicity of banks of issue, banking legislations, monetary systems; 4. The First World War: inflation and stabilisation; 5. The 1920s and 1930s: foreign exchange policy and industrial and financial restructuring; 6. The Second World War and the 1947 stabilisation; 7. The fifties and sixties; 8. The seventies; 9. Italy in the eighties: towards Central Bank independence; 10. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index of authors; Subject Index.

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• Authors: Michele Fratianni, Michele (Indiana University) Spinelli Fratianni, Michele Spinelli Fratianni, Professor Michele Fratianni, Professor Michele Spinelli Fratianni, Fratianni Michele, Franco Spinelli
• Assisted by: Anna Jacobson Schwartz (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.2005
• EAN: 9780521023450
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02345-0
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Studies in Macroeconomic History; Studies in Macroeconomic Histo
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous