The Bank of Italy released eight new Occasional Papers (Nos. 910–917), publishing research across households and markets, sustainability and the green transition, public sector digitalisation, and institutional and policy impacts. The papers cover households’ portfolio composition from 2010 to 2023 using Financial Accounts and the Survey of Household Income and Wealth; the Italian automotive sector in the green transition; energy poverty in the European Union; micro-determinants of mutual fund portfolio gyrations using machine learning models; the effects of reforming the judicial map on the functioning of civil justice; the impact of public incentives on the birth of innovative start-ups; digitalisation in Italian local governments in 2022 based on the IDAL survey; and ESG metrics in CEO compensation in major EU economies.