He was influenced by Giorgio Mortara, an eminent statistician and his teacher, and by Wesley Mitchell, whose work on business cycles he had translated.2 They used to tell a story here at the Bank of Italy about how Baffi visited the Federal Reserve Board in the mid-1950s, as Head of Research, to discuss the construction of financial accounts.
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