General Government participations in Italy

In 2015, units owned by general government in Italy were 9,655 with a weight of 882,012 in terms of persons employed. Compared to the previous […]

The effects of tax provisions on enterprises

This note analyzes the effects of the main provisions on corporate income taxation adopted in Italy in 2017: the reduction of the corporate income tax […]

The profile of the new entrepreneurs

The expansion of the social, economic and statistical information is carried out from the integration of multiple administrative and statistical sources. This allows to define […]

Environmental protection investments

In 2014 investments for environmental protection of industrial companies decreased for the second year in a row, with a decline of 19.7 % compared to […]

Multinational enterprises

In 2014, there were 13,569  foreign affiliates resident in Italy. These enterprises employed 1,2 million  persons, generated a turnover of 524 billion  euros and a […]

Innovation in Italian enterprises

In 2012-2014, 44.6% of Italian enterprises with at least ten persons employed undertook innovation activity. As compared to the previous period 2008-2010, the propensity to […]

Consumer and business confidence

With regard to the consumer survey, the confidence climate index increased in July 2016 from 110.2 to 111.3. The personal, current and future components grew: […]

Business demography

For the sixth consecutive year, the balance between births and deaths (net rate of turnover) was negative (-1.4%) but lower than that recorded in 2013 […]

Turnover in services

The Services turnover index measures the quarterly change recorded in sales at current prices by enterprises belonging to the domain of services. Starting from the […]

Consumer and business confidence

With regard to the consumer survey, the confidence climate index decreased in April 2016 from 114.9 to 114.2. All components decreased: economic from 142.7 to […]