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...

Italian Abstract: A tre anni di distanza dagli eventi della Primavera Araba, i 5 paesi del nord Africa – Algeria, Egitto, Libia, Marocco e Tunisia (NA5) – si trovano ancora ad affrontare una difficile fase di transizione, dopo che attese iniziali di un rapido rinnovamento sono state in parte...

Italian Abstract: Nell’arena internazionale del mercato globale, gli imprenditori e le imprese dell’Unione europea sono chiamati a far fronte a numerose insidie concorrenziali, alcune delle quali provenienti da Paesi terzi. La continua e crescente internazionalizzazione del mercato fa...

Italian Abstract: Secondo i dati di commercio estero, il settore farmaceutico, in cui il nostro paese è fortemente specializzato, ha contribuito in misura determinante alla ripresa delle esportazioni italiane di beni dal 2010; nel 2019 si è registrato un aumento particolarmente pronunciato delle...

This paper examines the product specialisation of Italian exports over the period 1985-2001 to identify the roots of Italy�s sluggish export performance with respect to world trade in the second half of the 1990s. In particular, the analysis focuses on the role of product specialisation in...

This paper compares the evolution of trade specialisation, by technological content, of Emilia-Romagna, Lombardia, Marche, Veneto and the Italian average over 1992-2002. It is shown that, over the period, the four regions� export performance has been negatively affected by the stationarity...

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...

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...

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.