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Disinflation in Italy: An Analysis with the Econometric Model of the Bank of Italy

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At the end of 1986, the annual inflation rate in Italy, measured in terms of the consumer price index, was 4.2%; wholesale prices actually fell by 2.5%. The inflation rate had not been so low since before the first oil shock.

Since 1989 the World Bank, Washington (DC).

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Gressani, D., Guiso, L., Visco, I. (1994). Disinflation in Italy: An Analysis with the Econometric Model of the Bank of Italy. In: Baldassarri, M. (eds) The Italian Economy. Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23113-3_5

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