02 Oct 2025 The Fragile Balance of Trust Price stability depends on a collective persuasion: believing that money holds value. In an unstable world, inflation remains a central challenge that requires public awareness and sophisticated responses
02 Sep 2025 What Lit the Fuse? A study reconstructs three alternative scenarios to explain the relationship between the labor market and the post-Covid inflationary surge, exploring the effects of supply, demand and expectations
02 Oct 2025 Rising Prices Are a State of Mind The impact of inflation goes beyond the numbers. Between stressful wage negotiations, growing distrust and “shoe-leather costs,” economics runs up against psychology
02 Oct 2025 Services Under Pressure In the new European scenario, domestic demand is driving price increases in services, making monetary policy actions more challenging, explains Mario Porqueddu, Bocconi Alumnus and Senior Economist at ECB
02 Oct 2025 When the Cure Fuels the Symptoms According to Alessia De Stefani, Economist at the IMF and Bocconi alumna, rising interest rates can unexpectedly push up housing costs, worsening the burden on renters
02 Oct 2025 Rising Rates? Companies with Floating-Rate Loans Raise Their Prices A new study reveals how floating-rate loans may have weakened the effectiveness of the ECB’s monetary tightening: to defend their profit margins, companies pass higher borrowing costs onto consumers