Italian Abstract: Il lavoro analizza la dinamica e le caratteristiche delle obbligazioni bancarie detenute dalle famiglie italiane e presenta una stima del rendimento lordo a scadenza delle obbligazioni bancarie sottoscritte all'emissione. Dal 1950 la quota di tali attività nel portafoglio...

The analysis and measurement of poverty is a crucial and unsolved issue in the field of social science. This work aims to measure poverty as a multidimensional notion using a new composite indicator. However, subjective choices as different weighting schemes on the indicator's construction could...

Nella prima parte di questo lavoro vengono analizzate alcune delle principali dottrine economiche che hanno contribuito a definire il fenomeno competitivo. Si è cercato di ricostruire storicamente la definizione di competitività attraverso i contributi più rilevanti del pensiero economico...

Knowledge of the characteristics of the short-term evolution of consumer prices for each country and for their average is important for better monitoring and forecasting of inflation in the euro area. In this paper we seek to verify to what extent the short-term variability of the HICPs can be...

English Abstract: In this work, we propose a new approach to constructing interval-based composite indicators based on the triplex representation. So, we measure the principal value of the indicator and simultaneously the value's uncertainty due to the different assumptions as different...

Italian Abstract:A quattro anni dalla pubblicazione del primo rapporto sulla sostenibilità urbana in Italia Per un’Italia Sostenibile: L’SDSN Italia SDGs City Index 2018 e a due anni dal Report di aggiornamento, la presente relazione espone i dati aggiornati al 2022 relativi ai comuni...

This paper evaluates the economic effects of Structural Funds in Italy. After presenting the distribution of Funds across Italian Regions over the period 1996-2007 and documenting how the Regions manage the financial resources recevied by EU, the paper assesses the impact of Structural Funds on...

This empirical paper investigates two important and controversial economic relationship: the link between underground employment and unemployment, and the connection among underground economy and local factors. The key results of this analysis are two. The first: the causality relationship...

The paper analyses the static and dynamic risk of poverty in the enlarged European Union. In the first part of the paper an overview of cross-sectional poverty rates in 25 European Member States (apart from Romania and Bulgaria) using several indexes is presented and assessed. In the second...

The aim of the paper is the explanation of the instability of the financing rules embracing the political-electoral cycles approach. A demonstration of the two following assertions is presented: - when Local Governments (Regions) are the sole manager of the HCS' expenditure, the increase of HCS'...