In current debate, economic development is connected with relative social capital endowment, the diffusion of co-operative practices between firms and the role and efficiency of institutions. In this paper a factor analysis approach is used to provide synthetic indicators of these variables for...

Despite accounting for a significant fraction of total litigation in Italy, small claims litigation has so far received little attention. Using a Ministry of Justice database that contains information disaggregated by subject matter, the paper provides a thorough description of the time trend...

The functioning of the Italian civil justice system is characterized by deep regional disparities: the length of legal proceedings is on average significantly higher in the South than in the rest of Italy. Using mainly a descriptive approach, this paper documents these differences and...

This paper empirically investigates the role of the efficiency of judicial enforcement in shaping firms� financial structure, by focusing on the choice between trade credit and alternative external sources. Suppliers have an advantage over other short-term lenders in enforcing credit...

Italian Abstract: In questo lavoro si valuta la dimensione del mercato illegale della cannabis in Italia e le entrate fiscali potenziali in caso di liberalizzazione. Rispetto a precedenti studi, si considera la elasticità al prezzo della domanda di cannabis e la competizione della criminalità...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro documenta l'evoluzione del funzionamento della giustizia civile nel decennio in corso, evidenziando come le misure adottate negli ultimi anni abbiano contribuito a deflazionare il nuovo contenzioso e, quindi, il carico dei pendenti. Anche il numero dei procedimenti...

Italian Abstract: Sfruttando la disponibilità di nuovi dati, il lavoro (i) fornisce una valutazione più articolata, rispetto al passato, della performance dei tribunali civili e (ii) esamina i divari territoriali e il ruolo dei fattori di domanda e offerta nello spiegare le eterogeneità...

Nowadays, in Italy the science sector is doing a strategic restructuring due to budget cuts. Thus, the measure and evaluation of research performance of its units (public research institute) is needed. This research uses the discriminant analysis (direct and Wilks methods) for measuring the...

Nowadays the Government of industrialized countries, in presence of reduced public resources, has to assign clear objectives to public research laboratories to increase the competitiveness of firms. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the public research bodies of the National Research...

Within the current debate about the role of public research in the modern societies and the relations between public and private research, there is an increasing interest towards a possible rivalry between fundamental and applied research. Some preoccupations arise from the fact that the strong...