In the last decade the Italian economy has underperformed compared both with the previous decades and with the main European countries. It is widely acknowledged that this evolution reflects unresolved structural problems, which have become more urgent in view of the major changes in the world...

This study of the Italian wool-based textile industries (woollens, worsteds, and serges) seeks to examine its rise, expansion, and ultimate decline, over a period of five centuries (from ca. 1200 to ca. 1730) in the context of both international competition and economic conjoncture, in the...

Questo lavoro è la versione preliminare del capitolo dedicato alla “New Economic Geography” (NEG) ed alle sue implicazioni per lo sviluppo locale del testo “Manuale di sviluppo locale” (a cura di G. Seravalli), attualmente in corso di stesura. Il lavoro studia innanzitutto il problema...

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...

This paper stresses the role of absolute productivities and absolute advantages, instead of relative productivities and comparative advantages, in the determination of the existence and pattern of international trade. It owes to the contribution of Brewer’s (1985) article, which follows an...

Globalization means the affirmation of a single market at the global level. More generally, the word globalization is usually used to indicate a unified world that tends to homogenize products and consumption patterns. In addition to the undoubtedly positive effects that the processes of...

The study of the relationship between immigration, organized crime and economic development is a subject of great interest particularly in countries affected by large migration flows. The aim of this paper is to analyze and define general guidelines for the relationship between immigration and...

The paper aims to critically examine the problems of public debt in Italy under the criteria of the Maastricht Treaty and subsequent decisions by Europe in tax matters. On this issue, the paper shows Italy's efforts in the direction of the Maastricht criteria, but also highlights the problems to...

On 1 January 1999, the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has entered its final stage and the euro was introduced as the single currency of eleven European Union countries. The feature certainly peculiar economic and monetary union (EMU) is that in the face of a single monetary policy set at the...

The aim of this work is to estimate the relationship between tariff barriers and trade growth at the world level applying a long-term approach and comparing different trade regimes. At the same time it aims at giving useful insights to assess the effectiveness of the current multilateral trading...