The traditional method to describe commodity markets with rational expectations is to link commodity prices with market shocks both on the supply and demand side. This study extends the traditional approach by specifying both the price and stock paths in terms of short and long run demand...

This study describes the development of the region Valle d'Aosta in a historical perspective by comparing the current economic conditions with those observed in 1963 and depicted by two regional SAMs. The SAM multipliers analysis reveals the core characteristics and the changes occurred during...

The aim of the paper is to present new evidence on the relationship between income and health expenditure allowing for (i) substitution and complementary relationships between private and public health expenditure, (ii) presence of structural breaks in the dependent variables, and (iii) presence...

In this paper we analyse the importance of precautionary saving in Italy. In contrast to previous studies, we focus on two contemporaneous sources of uncertainty, income and health expenditures, to explain the presence of precautionary saving. The major changes occurred in public health care...