Italian abstract: Il criterio con cui le imprese della grande distribuzione selezionano i fornitori tiene sempre più conto dell'esigenza di rendere gli assortimenti differenziati, aumentando le opportunità per i fornitori minori con specializzazioni di nicchia. Questo lavoro si pone...

The paper offers a critical assessment of the central proposition of the ��financial instability hypothesis��, i.e. that phases of expansion and investment growth are harbingers of increasing instability that can endogenously generate a financial crisis. As a preliminary, it...

Even before the global crisis, the Italian economy was in difficulties internationally, but slow growth and a declining share of world trade were accompanied by a perceptible process of manufacturing transformation. This paper, using data from the Bank of Italy�s survey of manufacturers,...