Italy’s “nonsense output gap” is not the big issue

Some commentators have argued that technicalities around estimates of euro-zone countries’ output gaps have led to excessively-tight fiscal policy. While we have some sympathy with this view, in Italy’s case it misses the bigger picture that fiscal stimulus alone would not resolve the debt problem.

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