In this paper we study the evolution of citizenship laws around the world. Our analysis is based on a dataset we compiled to document such evolution in 162 countries in the 1948-2001 period. Our econometric results can be summarized as follows. The legal tradition, as represented by the...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro fornisce un quadro descrittivo dei recenti flussi di richiedenti asilo in Italia e nell’Unione Europea. Dopo aver esaminato le dinamiche degli ingressi irregolari e delle richieste di protezione internazionale, si analizzano le differenze a livello europeo...

Maffeo Pantaleoni’s concepts of “political prices” and “economic prices” explore institutional change and the dynamics of rent-seeking society. He distinguishes between “objective” discriminations, which conform to the reproductive logic of an institution, and those that are...

Maffeo Pantaleoni’s concepts of “political prices” and “economic prices” explore institutional change and the dynamics of rent-seeking society. He distinguishes between “objective” discriminations, which conform to the reproductive logic of an institution, and those that are...

[ENGLISH]This work presents original results regarding the relationship between economic life and organised crime in Italy. This empirical study is underpinned by some theoretical insights drawn from conflict and rent-seeking theories. Then the paper presents a panel analysis including the...

The discussion around the adequateness of the Constitution to the current economic setting is still ongoing. To see where, this discussion will lead eventually, it is interesting to compare the Italian decentralization process with a similar process undertaken in Belgium. This contribution...

Italian Abstract: Le “specie” di corporate governance sono conseguenza di un adattamento al contesto politico-istituzionale. Pertanto, a differenza di quanto prospettato dalla cd. Legal Origin Theory (per cui si ha/avrà necessariamente una convergenza verso un modello efficiente o ideale),...

Italian abstract: A partire da un’analisi dell’articolo di Carlo Trigilia “Crescita squilibrata: perché la sociologia economica ha più successo nella teoria che nelle pratiche?”, pubblicato nel 2007 sulla rivista Stato e Mercato, viene sviluppata una proposta teorico-metodologica, di...

Maffeo Pantaleoni’s concepts of “political prices” and “economic prices” explore institutional change and the dynamics of rent-seeking society. He distinguishes between “objective” discriminations, which conform to the reproductive logic of an institution, and those that are...

What is “local” about places? This is the fundamental research question addressed by Giacomo Becattini. One answer lies in exploring a “middle ground”, between planned and spontaneous orders, in which implicit coordination and collective tacit knowledge explain situated dynamic...