La dinamica dell’occupazione indipendente in Italia mostra aspetti peculiari rispetto a quelli che caratterizzano gli altri paesi europei. Questo saggio presenta i contributi che la letteratura straniera e quella italiana hanno dato nell’interpretare tale espansione e sottolinea...

The government of India has appointed many committees to look into the issue of agrarian distress in India. An Expert Panel was constituted by the National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development to evolve an implementable plan of action based on the various recommendations of these...

"This study is part of a larger effort to explore the impact of agricultural research on poverty reduction. It examines the diffusion and impact of hybrid maize in selected resettlement areas of rural Zimbabwe, paying particular attention to varieties made widely available from the mid-1990s...

The far-reaching regulatory activity in which the financial sector has been involved in recent years has been attracting increased attention to the expected costs and benefits of such regulation; measures undertaken in response to the financial crisis have made these issues even more topical....

We study monetary policy in a New Keynesian (NK) model with endogenous growth and knowledge spillovers external to each firm. We find the following results: (i) technology and government spending shocks have different effects on growth; (ii) disinflationary monetary policies entail positive...

Il presente saggio contiene una disamina e valutazione dell’attività di Pasquale Jannaccone come opinion maker mediante un’analisi degli editoriali pubblicati su “La Nuova Stampa”. Dopo un breve profilo scientifico dell’autore, vengono affrontati tre elementi relativi al suo lavoro di...

We investigate, theoretically and empirically, the relationship between monetary policy and the term structure of interest rates. In particular, we show in a dynamic macroeconomic model that if monetary policy reveals information about economic developments, interest rates of all maturities move...