The Bank of Italy has released five new Occasional Papers (Nos. 996 to 1000), covering topics ranging from firms’ responses to US trade tariffs and the environmental footprint of remote working to household purchasing power, measurement of housing wealth, and new evidence on business investment and capital reallocation. The papers examine rerouting of Chinese products in response to US tariffs using Italian firms’ expectations (No. 1000); the environmental impact of remote working based on a Bank of Italy survey, including commuting, energy consumption and Scope 3 considerations under the GHG Protocol (No. 999); the role of fiscal drag and discretionary policy measures for Italian households’ purchasing power in 2022 to 2025 (No. 998); methods to reconcile survey and administrative records to measure housing wealth in Italy (No. 997); and evidence on business investment and capital reallocation, including leasing, financial constraints and productivity (No. 996).
Bank of Italy 2026-01-23
Bank of Italy releases five new Occasional Papers on trade-tariff rerouting remote working emissions fiscal drag housing wealth and business investment
The Bank of Italy published five Occasional Papers (Nos. 996 to 1000) addressing topics such as the rerouting of Chinese products due to US tariffs, the environmental impact of remote working, Italian household purchasing power, housing wealth measurement, and business investment and capital reallocation.