Italian Monetary and Foreign Exchange Policy
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Abstract
Italian monetary authorities implement monetary and credit policy by measures which operate partly through market mechanisms and partly through direct regulation and controls on financial institutions and markets. Italian experience in recent years provides a rich source of insights into the interplay among the factors that shape national monetary policy. These factors include the economic goals sought by the authorities, their policy instruments and techniques, their choice of intermediate targets, the setting of financial institutions and markets, constraints imposed by government budgetary policy, the balance of payments, membership since 1979 in the European Monetary System (EMS) and the authorities’ conceptual view of the way in which their policy measures work to alter economic behaviour and results.
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