The paper develops a small open economy growth model with endogenous innovations, in the presence of environmental externalities. Building on the Grossman ad Helpman (1991) analytical framework of endogenous growth in open economies, pollution is introduced into the analysis in the form of a...

This paper deals with the evolution of automobile sector during the 1990s in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Countries from a double point of view. At first, we wonder about the applicability to the sector of Flying Geese (FG) model, theorised by Kaname Akmatsu in the 1930s to explain...

This paper examines the product specialisation of Italian exports over the period 1985-2001 to identify the roots of Italy�s sluggish export performance with respect to world trade in the second half of the 1990s. In particular, the analysis focuses on the role of product specialisation in...

This paper compares main European countries and the euro area specialization patterns. The analysis, that covers the period 1988-1997 and is based on a detailed sectoral breakdown, provides evidence to assess the degree of structural differences and convergence among European countries, which...

This paper compares the evolution of trade specialisation, by technological content, of Emilia-Romagna, Lombardia, Marche, Veneto and the Italian average over 1992-2002. It is shown that, over the period, the four regions� export performance has been negatively affected by the stationarity...

International trade has increased, in the last few decades, however the economic divide between the advanced economies in the North of the world and the less developed of the South has increased.In the current state of affairs, characterised by the increasing integration between the commodities...