The scale of PayGo has a maximum level of functioning over which nevative effects prevail over positive ones. This means that, with almost all PayGo possibilities dedicated to pensions and health care (acute and Ltc), little or nothing remains for financing unemployment benefits schemes or other...

We use the same methodology, that Ecofin-Oecd apply for projecting expenditure in the medium-long term, to reconstruct expenditure in the medium-long past. It is possible to compare the effective expenditure with the reconstructed one. The effective expenditure is of course influenced by policy...

The demographic database of Eurostat and of Us Census of Bureau are explored and the main facts are extracted and described. This paper is completely self-standing but is also part of a more general analysis dedicated to the functioning and sustainability of pay-as-you-go to finance the welfare...

Introduzione - 1. Misurare l'equilibrio competitivo del calcio europeo - 2. Il mercato per i diritti di trasmissione televisiva del calcio - 2.1 Il lato dell'offerta - 2.2 il lato della domanda - 2.3 Policy implications - 3. Conclusioni

Italian Abstract: L'articolo discute le principali tendenze nella formazione e nell'evoluzione dell'economia politica come disciplina scientifica.Proponendo di includere in tale etichetta tutti gli studi dell'organizzazione delle società umane per quanto riguarda le attività di scambio e...

Italian Abstract: Vengono esposti i classici risultati dei modelli di monopolio con variabile strategica quantità o prezzo. L'utilizzo di funzioni lineari permette di calcolare, disegnare e comparare tutte le soluzioni e quindi razionalizzare la scelta di differenziazione del prodotto e...

The financing of innovation impacts on economic growth. What’s, among bank-based or market-based system, the best organizational form? The paper supports the view that both forms have to be merged into a unique approach (law and finance view) embracing not only the overall quality of the...

The concept of Smart City is considered increasingly strategic for the solution to the questions related to the irreversible urban agglomeration growth. Created in the nineties in parallel to the liberalisation process of telecommunications and the development of internet services, this...

Questo contributo, dopo un excursus riguardante l’esperienza dei distretti produttivi siciliani nel primo periodo della loro esistenza dal 2007 al 2010 a seguito del riconoscimento da parte della Regione Siciliana, si sofferma sui “Patti di Sviluppo” dei distretti produttivi per il periodo...

In the first months of 2003, the Presidency of the National Research Council (CNR) entrusted to the CERIS the realization of an innovative information system concerning Public and Sme’s R&D institutions in Italy. The system - at first called Re@Search, then become Ricerc@.it - had to satisfy...