The aim is to reduce bureaucratic procedures, simplify and rationalize working practices, thus fostering individual responsibility, reallocate resources from the Bank’s internal administration to its institutional functions, and tap into new recruitment channels, as with the forthcoming competitive examination for economists that is open to applicants from abroad.
We are on the point of implementing the reorganization of the activities of economic research and international relations, with the objective of structuring their tasks better according to particular needs: to contribute to setting the common monetary policy by monitoring and forecasting short-term economic developments and analyzing monetary strategy and transmission mechanisms; to study the fundamental problems of Italian economic development; to carry out research on the world economy and cooperate with international organizations; to refine economic statistical methodology and disseminate economic and financial statistics.