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Broad differences in life expectancy are observed across countries and socio-demographic groups. This paper reviews the evidence for Italy on the level and development of these inequalities and discusses the strength and possible determinants of the relationship between life expectancy and...
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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...
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Information from the Survey of Italian Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) is not normally used as a basis for regional estimates on account of the small sample size. This paper presents an experimental estimation of regional aggregates for the period 1995-2000, obtained by combining several...
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Tra i paesi del Mediterraneo esistono talvolta differenze profonde nei livelli di sviluppo. Queste differenze influenzano i processi demografici e questi a loro volta influiscono sui divari di sviluppo. Nel lavoro si esamina il caso dell’Albania e quello della Grecia che alla fine della...
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This paper is aimed at evaluating the incidence of measurement error on the main variables collected in the Bank of Italy�s Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW). The results are especially relevant to researchers using the data for economic analysis, since they need to take data...
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Italian Abstract: La crisi finanziaria originata nel mercato dei mutui subprime nel 2011 ha contagiato il mercato dei titoli sovrani; la propagazione dei rischi (effetto contagio) è dovuta a cause economiche (i.e. eccessiva spesa pubblica e crescita povera) e per cause finanziarie (i.e....
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Italian Abstract: Il lavoro analizza come la scelta della valuta di fatturazione usata nelle transazioni internazionali dalle imprese italiane influenzi la trasmissione degli shock sui tassi di cambio alle strategie di prezzo e all’attività d’azienda. Le imprese che fatturano in euro...
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The literature on Markov switching models is increasing and producing interesting results both at theoretical and applied levels. Most often the number of regimes, i.e., of data generating processes, is considered known; this strong hypothesis is adopted to somewhat bypass the nuisance parameter...
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In this paper we examine under what circumstances the information accumulated during market closing time and conveyed to the price formation at market opening may be exploited to predict where the stock price will be at the end of the trading day. In our sample of three financial time series, we...
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This paper estimates a pricing-to-market equation for Italy over the period 1990-99 with the aim of assessing the degree of exchange rate pass-through (ERPT). As compared to previous works, we minimize aggregation and selection biases using export data on all products (about 700 from 4 digits of...
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