Introduction section Research areas
Research areas
Directorate I of the Department of the Treasury conducts research principally in the following areas:
- Analysis of economic, monetary and financial issues, both domestic and international
- Analysis of public debt sustainability
- Analysis of the structural impact of reforms with monitoring the status of implementation
- Climate change
- Economic effects of population ageing and international migration
- Economic trends of the Italian and international economy
- Effects on the growth and competitiveness of public investments, particularly in research and innovation
- Energy sector and other network industries (including customer satisfaction)
- Estimation of Italy’s potential national economic product (GDP, GNP)
- EU 2020
- Job market and social policies, on both the macro- and micro-economic levels
- Macro- and micro-economic quantitative analysis
- Macroeconomic forecasts and simulations through the management and development of econometric models
- National and international financial and monetary system
- Pricing and international trade trends
- Public finance
- Regulatory regimes, rates and competition in the markets for products and services
- Relationship between public finance and macroeconomic trends
- Sustainable management of natural resources (water, land, urban waste, agriculture)