One way of limiting the likelihood or extent of a recurrence is to reduce the exposure of new borrowers to the threat of over-indebtedness.
17  See P. Sestito, ‘ Recepimento delle direttive europee in materia di contratti pubblici’, Testimony on the transposition of European directives on public contracts by the Head of the Bank of Italy’s Economic Structure Division before the Standing Committee on Environment, Territory and Public Works (VIII) of the Chamber of Deputies, 16 June 2014 (only in Italian).