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Small Businesses in the Aftermath of the Crisis : International Analyses and Policies
Calcagnini, Giorgio - 2012
Preface -- 1 SME and Entrepreneurship Policies After the Crisis -- 2 The Italian Small- and Medium-Sized Firms in the … Creation -- 10 OECD Countries' Policy Approach to the SME Crisis in the Recent Recession -- 11 The Internationalization of … Italian SME After the Crisis: New Opportunities or New Threats? -- 12 Guarantees and Bank-Loan Interest Rates in Italian Small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016014
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Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe
Bellavitis, Anna - 2018
In the last decades, women’s role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396923
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Economic Ethics in Late Medieval England, 1300–1500
Hole, Jennifer - 2016
Drawing on an array of archival evidence from court records to the poems of Chaucer, this work explores how medieval thinkers understood economic activity, how their ideas were transmitted and the extent to which they were accepted. Moving beyond the impersonal operations of an economy to its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397116
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Central Asia and the Silk Road : Economic Rise and Decline over Several Millennia
Barisitz, Stephan - 2017
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the pre-modern economic history of Central Asia and the Silk Road, covering several millennia. By analyzing an abundance of sources and materials, it illustrates the repeated economic heydays of the Silk Road, during which it linked the Orient and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397974
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The Rise of Empires : The Political Economy of Innovation
Ramesh, Sangaralingam - 2018
This book describes and evaluates how institutional innovation and technological innovation have impacted on humanity from pre-historical times to modern times, and how societies have been transformed in history. The author interrogates the relationship between innovation and civilisation --...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396979
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Benedetto Cotrugli – The Book of the Art of Trade : With Scholarly Essays from Niall Ferguson, Giovanni Favero, Mario Infelise, Tiziano Zanato and Vera Ribaudo
Carraro, Carlo (ed.); Favero, Giovanni (ed.) - 2017
This is the first English translation of Benedetto Cotrugli's The Book of the Art of Trade, a lively account of the life of a Mediterranean merchant in the Early Renaissance, written in 1458. The book is an impassioned defense of the legitimacy of mercantile practices, and includes the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397351
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Italian Institutional Reforms: A Public Choice Perspective
Padovano, Fabio (contributor); Ricciuti, Roberto (contributor) - 2008
Using a public choice perspective, this book explains the evolution and political and economic impact of recent changes to the Italian institutional framework. Because these changes are so numerous and broad, their implementation serves as a case study for other Western governments. Particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520732
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Access to Bank Credit and SME Financing
Rossi, Stefania (ed.) - 2017
analysis; Marina Brogi and Valentina Lagasio -- Part II: SME Funding and the Role of Alternative Non-Bank Finance in Italy … credit for such enterprises. Through this discussion we learn how crucial an understanding of SME-financing is to policy …Part I: Credit Market Environment and SME Finance in Europe -- Chapter 1: Non-Bank Financing for Euro Area Companies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397344
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Business Strategies and Competitiveness in Times of Crisis : A Survey on Italian SMEs
Gavinelli, Laura - 2016
SMEs, Italy -- Chapter 5 Boosting Italian SMEs' Development: first consideration -- Bibliography …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398036
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Mid-sized Manufacturing Companies: The New Driver of Italian Competitiveness
Coltorti, Fulvio (ed.); Resciniti, Riccardo (ed.);  … - 2013
districts that have characterized Italy and made Italian industry famous worldwide. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016800