This contribution aims to present the main results of a preliminary survey carried out on relevant socio-economic disparities that exist among the Provincial Administrations and/or geographic regions of Argentina, using several indicators to conduct a descriptive statistic analysis on the...

Economic convergence at the sub-national level could have spatially explicit manifestations reflecting convergence clubs and other forms of geographical clustering that are not captured by an overall inequality measure. By decomposing the Theil index of per capita income inequality into between...

In questo lavoro si ricava la soluzione centralizzata del modello di Uzawa-Lucas in presenza di esternalità. Attraverso una trasformazione che utilizza il rapporto reddito/capitale fisico e il rapporto consumo/capitale fisico, si ottengono informazioni sulle caratteristiche della transizione,...

Questo lavoro intende offrire un contributo allÕanalisi delle posizioni competitive delle imprese minori, in relazione ai sistemi di produzione locale nei quali esse si presentano aggregate ed ai contesti territoriali in cui operano. Il tema di importanza centrale dal momento che tende a...

The Internet Economy increases the integration among the subject involved in the production and diffusion of knowledge, in particular sources and interfaces of innovation: their action is amplified when Information and Communication Technology (ICT) favors the creation of an integrated network...

The new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) represent an important challenge for SME. Especially in the context of local productive areas, this topic may be relevant as a new opportunity of competitiveness for the system as a whole. In this working paper, the focus is on the...

This paper presents the results of an empirical survey carried out by Ceris-Cnr on the food-process machines industry in the South of Italy (Mezzogiorno).This survey has highlighted that in the southern regions, although the presence of important agroindustrial poles, the food-technology...

In this paper we investigate the interactions among fiscal decentralization, income inequality and regional disparities, using a sample of 23 OECD countries over the period 1971-2000. We first explore the effects of fiscal decentralization on overall income inequality. We then test whether...