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Club performance dynamics at Italian regional level

Garrido, N.; Mureddu, F. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2012

This paper analyze the dynamic economic performance of the Italian regions during the period 1970-2004. The measure of economic performance is given by the level and the growth rates of per capita GDP. Using the concept of economic regime, we introduce a notion of distance between the dynamical...

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Italian economic dualism and convergence clubs at regional level

Garrido, N.; Mureddu, F. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2011

This paper compares the long run prediction of convergence clubs introduced by Quah (1996 and 1997) with the actual observed dynamics of the Italian regions during the period 1970-2004. Economic dynamics is described by the evolution per capita GDP and different notions of distance are...

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Exploring the dynamics of the efficiency in the Italian hospitality sector. A regional case study

Deidda, M.; Garrido, N.; Pulina, M. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2011

the evolution of its economic efficiency. The investigation involves the following steps - a static Data Envelopment … Analysis (DEA) to estimate the pure economic efficiency; two different notions of distances between time series and … efficiency of the group of regions, causing shocks picked up by the high volatility as well as structural breaks. By employing …

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How efficient is the Italian hospitality sector? A window DEA and truncated-Tobit analysis

Brida, JG.; Detotto, C.; Pulina, M. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2011

This paper analyses the Italian regional efficiency of the hospitality sector using a data envelopment analysis (DEA …), for the time span 2000-2004. Via a window DEA, pure technical efficiency is computed. The Lombardy region presents the … hospitality efficiency. Nevertheless, empirical evidence does not support spill-over effects amongst Italian regions. …

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Different tourists to different destinations. Evidence from spatial interaction models

Marrocu, E.; Paci, R. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2012

As tourism is becoming one of the most important sources of economic growth at the local level, it is imperative to identify and assess the relevant determinants of tourism flows. This paper investigates this issue by carrying out an econometric analysis based on the origin-destination (OD)...

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The Markov Switching Asymmetric Multiplicative Error Model

Otranto, E. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2012

The empirical evidence behind the dynamics of high frequency based measures of volatility is that they exhibit persistence and at times abrupt changes in the average level by subperiods. In the past ten years this pattern has a clear interpretation in reference to the dot com bubble, the quiet...

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Comparative efficiency of producer cooperatives and conventional firms in a sample of quasi-twin companies

Brandano, MG.; Detotto, C.; Vannini, M. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2012

We investigate the comparative technical efficiency of producer cooperatives (PCs) and conventional firms (CFs) by …, technical efficiency indicators for each firm in each year are calculated using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with reference … to a common production frontier. Subsequently, the measured efficiency scores become the dependent variables of a pooled …

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Economic hardship, housing cost burden and tenure status: evidence from EU-SILC

Deidda, M. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2013

Statistics on Income and Living Conditions dataset (EU-SILC) regarding five European countries (Italy, Germany, UK, Spain and …

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The Effect of R&D Subsidies on Private R&D: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Data

Carboni, O. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2008

This paper uses a comprehensive firm level data set for the manufacturing sector in Italy to investigate the effect of …

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Application of the ML Hausman approach to the demand of water for residential use: heterogeneity vs two-error specification

Strazzera, E. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2006

This paper presents an application of two ML models to the analysis of residential demand of water - the heterogeneity and the two-error model, both apt to model demand in presence of a kinked budget constraint. The heterogeneity model is especially suitable when the distribution is...

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