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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...
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patterns of trade: a very high relative share of manufacturing firms with less than 50-100 employees and corresponding very low …
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The ratification process of the constitutional treaty of the European Union needs to be started from a local level. The collected studies and statements of this paper have been presented in February 2005 and focus the different pro and contras, the opportunities and risks of the treaty in the...
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Three industrial organization (IO) models suggested by Dornbusch (1987) are here adapted to study the labor-cost effects on relative prices of tradable goods between the regions of a monetary union. The assumption of imperfect and segmented goods and labor markets makes the analysis best suited...
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This paper examines regional inflation divergence within the European EMU aiming at characterizing the properties of inflation differentials. The empirical evidence suggests that a process of price level convergence in the EMU is well on its way.
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Italian Abstract: Lo studio esamina l'andamento della spesa dei turisti stranieri in Italia e della quota del nostro paese nel mercato mondiale delle spese dei turisti all'estero (le esportazioni di servizi turistici) dall'inizio dello scorso decennio. Il lavoro propone un confronto con gli...
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Italian Abstract: Lo studio esamina l'andamento della spesa dei turisti stranieri in Italia e della quota del nostro paese nel mercato mondiale delle spese dei turisti all'estero (le esportazioni di servizi turistici) dall'inizio dello scorso decennio. Il lavoro propone un confronto con gli...
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Negli ultimi vent'anni, l'apertura commerciale delle economie dell'Asia orientale – con abbondanza relativa di lavoro - ha eroso il vantaggio comparato dei paesi a reddito medio-alto nei manufatti ad alta intensità di lavoro. Questo fenomeno ha colpito particolarmente l’Italia, notoriamente...
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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...
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considered not only from the perspective of direct investments abroad but also in the context of trade flows and of the capacity …
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