The paper examines the fragmentation of production from the view-point of industrialised countries. From this perspective, the following questions are addressed: how do local systems evolve in the process of de-localisation of productions? Which are the short term and long term effects to be...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro presenta alcune analisi su IDE e scambi internazionali di servizi basate sui microdati sottostanti alle statistiche di bilancia dei pagamenti. I microdati sono in grado di evidenziare e mitigare alcuni limiti informativi delle statistiche ufficiali, ormai non più...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro presenta un quadro delle statistiche disponibili sull’internazionalizzazione del sistema produttivo italiano. Le diverse fonti disponibili sono messe a confronto in termini di completezza, coerenza e compatibilità, tempestività degli aggiornamenti, frequenza e...

During the past decade all industrial countries attracted sizeable inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), excluding Italy and Japan: this fact has been interpreted as evidencing a deterioration in Italy�s structural competitiveness. This paper presents the results of a survey conducted...

This paper supports the view that the deep roots of the current global crisis, which has taken the form of a mainly financial crisis, are related to a global fundamental unbalance in income distribution. There are two dimensions of the unbalance. The first one is between capital and labour...

The economic collapse of 2007-10 is described as a debt deflation crisis triggered by a speculative bubble. The basic causes are traced back to the policy choices of the great capitalist powers governing globalization. Market liberalization and the TRIPS agreements work as a sort of global...

Italian Abstract: I conti patrimoniali sono parte del sistema di contabilità nazionale e forniscono un quadro completo della ricchezza di un paese e della sua evoluzione temporale. Nel lavoro vengono presentati i conti patrimoniali dell'Italia costruiti utilizzando i dati dei conti finanziari...

Growth Diagnostics, GD, by Ricardo Hausmann, Dani Rodrik and Andrés Velasco, represents a useful and practical approach in order to identify the most binding constraints to explain low economic growth. According to the authors the full list of specific economic constraints is unknowable...