Regional and national development policies play an important role to support local enterprises in Italy. The amount of financial aid may be a key feature for firms’ employment policies. We study the impact on employment of the amount of financial aid attributed to enterprises located in...

Agriculture is both a large-scale user of land and a provider of landscapes. The adaptation of agricultural practices to local conditions has led to a wide variety of "cultural landscapes" in Europe. The Common Agricultural Policy being a major driver of land use and farming practices change in...

The recent publication in Italy of several books on rural development policy and the commitment shown by many of the actors and institutions to its implementation contrast with the evidence of an administration showing scant propensity to dedicate efforts to targeting and selecting, integrating...

Given the major changes that rural areas have undergone, and are continuing to undergo, serious problems of achieving sustainable development are being experienced. These changes have multiple characters, varying from changes in ecosystem conditions to changes in socio-economic impacts, due to,...

Agriculture is both a large-scale user of land and a provider of landscapes. The adaptation of agricultural practices to local conditions has led to a wide variety of "cultural landscapes" in Europe. The Common Agricultural Policy being a major driver of land use and farming practices change in...

In many observational studies the treatment may not be binary or categorical, but rather continuous in nature, so focus is on estimating a continuous dose-response function. In this paper we propose a set of Stata programs to semiparametrically estimate the dose-response function of a continuous...

This paper revises the estimation of the dose-response function as in Hirano and Imbens (2004) by proposing a flexible way to estimate the generalized propensity score when the treatment variable is not necessarily normally distributed. We also provide a set of programs that accomplish this task...

More aggressive acquiring firms paid higher executive compensation than non or less aggressive acquiring firms. This paper applies the generalized propensity score (GPS) methodology to estimate the relationship between a firm’s acquisition and its executive compensation. Allowing for...

We consider the problem of using data from several programs, each implemented at a different location, to compare what their effect would be if they were implemented at a specific location. In particular, we study the effectiveness of nonexperimental strategies in adjusting for differences...

En este documento se evalúan los efectos de la implementación del Sistema General de Regalías sobre el desempeño fiscal municipal en 2012, para una muestra de 1.025 municipios, a través del análisis dosis-respuesta. Se encontró que en el 93% de las entidades territoriales de la muestra,...