The relationship between financial development and economic growth has received enormous attention in the economic literature of the last decade. The widely accepted consensus finding is that financial development has a positive effect on growth at either aggregate, or industry or firm levels....

In Italy the rate of growth of GDP has declined over the period 2000-2007, after joining the single currency. The decrease is not incidental, but it has a structural and long-term nature, so this decrease relates to the potential growth. This weakening of growth takes place in an international...

This contribution is an analysis and a comment of the Final Remarks of the Governor of the Bank of Italy and his directions of economic policy for the Italian economy. An economy that has a high unemployment and also supports a public debt that, despite the recent efforts of fiscal...

This paper examines the main issues related to the labor market in Italy and indicates some possible solutions that do not focus exclusively on the flexibility of the labor market, but rather on the overall problem and the complexity of employment, with its economic dimension, but also social....

Employment and, more generally, the theme of labor market are central issues in the debate on economic growth, but they are also relevant social issues. It is well known that Italy has been experiencing weak economic growth for over twenty years. This paper examines the employment and labor...

In the present work we argue that in order to appraise the explanatory power of the existing explanations of dualism in the Italian economy it is important to examine their empirical predictions relatively to the territorial dispersion of some efficiency measures. Applying the non-parametric FDH...

In questo lavoro si fornisce unabreve rassegna dei più recenti contributi teorici, sul legame tra distribuzione e crescita, basati sull’incompletezza dei mercati dei capitali Se i mercati dei capitali sono imperfetti e le decisioni individuali di investimento avvengono in condizioni di...

Italian Abstract: Questo documento discute la vita e il lavoro di Josef Steindl.Esamina lo sviluppo del suo pensiero dai suoi primi scritti su dimensioni solide e concentrazione industriale ai suoi ultimi lavori sui problemi postbellici delle economie capitaliste.Particolare attenzione viene...

This paper examines the economic and social aspects of migration flows to Europe from the Mediterranean countries and the different problems that these flows are creating in the countries of the European Union, who has long lived a long crisis. The work also seeks to provide some indication of...