19  See I. Visco, ‘Sviluppo dell’economia e stabilità finanziaria: il vincolo del debito pubblico’, a speech made at the 63rd Meeting of Government Studies on ‘La tutela degli interessi finanziari della collettività nel quadro della contabilità pubblica: principi, strumenti, limiti’, Varenna, 21 September 2017.
See also I. Visco, The Governor’s Concluding Remarks for 2017, in the Annual Report for 2017, Banca d’Italia, 29 May 2018. 11  As I have already mentioned, increasing spending on investment by means of deficit financing, without addressing growth potential, would only be of temporary benefit.