During the last forty years there was a broad consensus in the academic literature that human capital is an important determinant of productivity and other economic outcomes, both at the individual and at the aggregate level, and that its role was particularly crucial to reduce regional growth...

Italian Abstract: Il presente lavoro analizza la sensitività delle stime del PIL potenziale e dell'output gap utilizzate nel contesto del processo di sorveglianza del Patto di stabilità e crescita. Il metodo di stima è quello della funzione di produzione adottato dalla Commissione europea e...

The hedge funds industry was partly blamed for the global financial crisis that started in 2007, especially in Europe. If one analyses the performance of hedge funds during this period, it becomes clear that the hedge fund industry did not necessarily fare well. Some funds gained, but many...

The increasing use of internal market models for market risk assessment and management promotes, in compliance with Basel II, better risk management practices but introduces at the same time the so called model risk. In the light of the many open issues connected to market risk, the aim of this...

English Abstract: They can be seen as the sum of a bond and an option (derivative component). The work explores some of the issues for the evaluation of the theoretical value (or fair value) of this type of bonds, providing an order of magnitude of the difference between the issue price (gross...

English abstract: This paper investigates how Covid mobility restrictions impacted the population of investors of the Italian stock market.The research is the result of a collaboration between Consob and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. The analysis tracks the trading activity of individual...

L’analisi dell’impatto economico esercitato dalle istituzioni culturali ha costituito l’oggetto di numerosi lavori, volti ad investigare, in generale, la domanda di cultura. Pur osservando un’evidenza rilevata tra il 1999 e il 2000, il presente studio è tuttora di interesse per...

Introduzione – 1. Localizzazione geografica e risultati sportivi in Serie A – 2. Variabili economiche e performance sportiva – 3. La performance sportiva attraverso gli scontri diretti: una analisi econometrica – Conclusioni – Appendice – Bibliografia

We study the effects of the world economic crisis which began in 2007 on the Italian productive system. National accounts data are supplemented with information gathered in spring 2009 from the Bank of Italy�s survey on industrial and service firms, and from interviews with about 70 of...

This study analyses, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects in productivity (product per worker), at economic sectors level of the NUTs III of mainland Portugal, from 1995 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2005 (taking in count the data availability and the Portuguese...