Nel lavoro si fornisce una misura dell’impatto dell’espansione dei vettori low cost sulla dinamica della spesa per vancanze dei turisti internazionali in Italia. Per stimare tale impatto utilizziamo un dataset originale sui posti a sedere offerti sui voli operati dai vettori low cost che...

Even before the global crisis, the Italian economy was experiencing international difficulties, although the slow growth and declining share of world trade were accompanied by a perceptible process of manufacturing transformation. The paper uses data from the Bank of Italy’s survey of...

This paper aims to analyze the macroeconomic impact of infrastructures through review of the literature, meta-analysis and empirical analysis of the Italian data. We report a general consensus over the positive effects of infrastructures, even though the results are affected by the estimation...

The paper provides new, more detailed evidence on the productivity of manufacturing firms across Italian local labour markets by analysing a large firm-level database covering the 1995-2006 period. The analysis identifies two types of highly agglomerated areas - large cities and industrial...

The STARMA (space-time autoregressive moving average) model class was introduced in the mid-1970s as a spatio-temporal extension to the ARMA time series model class. To enhance the model’s ability in dealing with spatial dependence and heterogeneity of observations, the article extends...

Nel lavoro si propone una nuova metodologia empirica di misurazione del grado di integrazione economica tra il Mezzogiorno e il resto dell’Italia. La metodologia prevede la specificazione e la stima di un modello VAR (Vector Autoregressive) multi-regionale. La misura model-based di...