Synchronization of the Italian External Macroeconomic Imbalances with European Union Countries

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84319-8_9" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84319-8_9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84319-8_9" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-84319-8_9</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Synchronization of the Italian External Macroeconomic Imbalances with European Union Countries

Original language description

Italy, as an EU member state, is subject to the Macroeconomic Imbalances Procedure. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the development of the external macroeconomic imbalances of the Italian economy, as well as its synchronization with other EU countries, between 2013 and 2022. The required results are obtained using the furthest neighbor agglomerative method of cluster analysis, with the resulting dendrogram. The main conclusion to be drawn from the cluster analysis is the identification of a significant long-term mutual similarity in the development of external macroeconomic imbalances in Italy and France, as well as with core EU countries in 2014, 2017 and 2022, but not in 2020. Both countries experienced similar structural problems, including labor market mismatches, persistent structural unemployment, and low cost competitiveness of the corporate sector, high income inequality, and large redistributive programs that were offset by fiscal deficits. Throughout the period under review, Italy experienced significant negative changes in its export market share. This was mainly due to increased labor costs, declining labor productivity, the Italian economy’s strong dependence on tourism, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, escalating inflation levels and rising energy prices. This information can be an important indicator for early warning of adverse economic developments.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, in: Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin & Hakan Danis & Ender Demir & Giovanni Di Bartolomeo (ed.), Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives

ISBN

9783031843181

Number of pages of the result

14

Pages from-to

149-162

Number of pages of the book

14

Publisher name

Springer Nature

Place of publication

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