Agriculture has always played a key role in our society, it has changed and adapted during the years until now with the award of a multifunctional role of agriculture in the wider socio-economic context. Among the non-agricultural activities is the '"Social Agriculture" which, although not yet...

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...

Information on the globalization of Italian companies is vast but incomplete and bitty. This work estimates some effects of delocalization on firm’s profits and value added for Veneto clothing and footwear firms. Through a direct survey on several companies and the estimate of a fixed effect...

In manufacturing industry in Italy outsourcing abroad is becoming increasingly important and Veneto firms are on the forefront. This study presents the results of a direct survey conducted on 24 firms, both in Veneto and in Romania. The article examines the participation of Veneto firms in the...

This paper provides an overview of the government debt associated to the postal services focusing on a case study. In fact, the performance and the government expenditure on postal services from the Belle Époque to the current situation is investigated. This is done with the aim of identifying...

This paper discusses the growth of Italian SMRs. Firms, particularly localized in industrial districts, do not grow in size, but often establish formal or informal connections with other firms,in order to relocate manufacturing phases, establish commercial agreements, develop their activities in...

This paper estimates a pricing-to-market equation for Italy over the period 1990-99 with the aim of assessing the degree of exchange rate pass-through (ERPT). As compared to previous works, we minimize aggregation and selection biases using export data on all products (about 700 from 4 digits of...

Questo lavoro fornisce alcune evidenze sul posizionamento qualitativo delle esportazioni. L’analisi empirica, relativa al periodo 1996-2006, si concentra sulla qualità delle esportazioni nel settore della meccanica di Italia, Germania, Giappone e Cina nel mercato degli Stati Uniti. La ricerca...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro analizza l'evoluzione recente delle economie del Nord Ovest italiano, concentrandosi sui fenomeni della deindustrializzazione e della terziarizzazione dell'economia. Dal confronto con un gruppo di regioni europee definibili come “industriali avanzate”, emerge come...