In Italy, fixed telecommunications were liberalised 15 years ago, but the incumbent is still the dominant operator. The Italian antitrust authority has recently fined Telecom Italia for margin squeeze and technical sabotage, proving that the incumbent still has the incentive and the power to...

In Italy, fixed telecommunications were liberalised 15 years ago, but the incumbent is still the dominant operator. The Italian antitrust authority has recently fined Telecom Italia for margin squeeze and technical sabotage, proving that the incumbent still has the incentive and the power to...

In Italy, fixed telecommunications were liberalised 15 years ago, but the incumbent is still the dominant operator. The Italian antitrust authority has recently fined Telecom Italia for margin squeeze and technical sabotage, proving that the incumbent still has the incentive and the power to...

The paper aims to highlight the crucial role played by the manufacturing industry in thegrowth of the developed countries. This assumption is based, first of all, on the theoreticalcontributions of Petrus Verdoorn and Nicholas Kaldor, that, in the '50s and '60s, have identifiedlinks connecting...

Despite the declining share of eu gdp, the manufacturing industry is still contributing substantially to overall economic growth because of its higher productivity trend. In 2012, the eu Commission in a communication on industrial policy (com 2012,582 final), stressed the need to reverse this...

This paper aims to give some remarks about the regulatory choices in Italy on the main network industries, former public monopolies (telecommunications, transport, water, energy). In particular, it focuses on the main legislative actions taken by the current Italian Government and provides some...