Italian Abstract: Il perimetro della Città metropolitana di Napoli come stabilito dalla Legge n. 57/2014 non è coerente con le “mappe funzionali” dell’area metropolitana di Napoli prodotte dagli studi sino ad ora condotti. A loro volta, queste mappe si sovrappongono solo parzialmente e,...

Bank lending expanded rapidly in Italy in the second half of the 1980s and early 1990s. By contrast, in the four years 1993-96 it rose moderately, and in real terms it diminished. The paper addresses some questions in the light of these trends: Was there a structural change in firms’ demand...

The aim of this study is to develop a new method to measure local endowments of transport infrastructures. Starting from the analytical approach of the �new economic geography�, which emphasizes the role of spatial location in determining the growth performance of an economy, it is...

The Internet Economy increases the integration among the subject involved in the production and diffusion of knowledge, in particular sources and interfaces of innovation: their action is amplified when Information and Communication Technology (ICT) favors the creation of an integrated network...

This paper presents the results of an empirical survey carried out by Ceris-Cnr on the food-process machines industry in the South of Italy (Mezzogiorno).This survey has highlighted that in the southern regions, although the presence of important agroindustrial poles, the food-technology...

Le politiche pubbliche possono giocare un ruolo importante nell’orientare la diffusione su larga scala del lavoro a distanza. Diverse comunità in tutto il mondo stanno sperimentando soluzioni innovative. In Italia, la Provincia autonoma di Trento ha sviluppato una strategia per il lavoro a...

In Sicily there is an increased dependency of the economy and employment from politics due to the weakness of the market economy and to the lack of strong civic culture. This paper will explain what are the ‘productive districts’ in Sicily and what they represent. The present work focuses on...