Italian Abstract:Il lavoro analizza le principali tendenze e le caratteristiche strutturali del settore del turismo in Italia, a cui sono riconducibili oltre il 5 per cento del PIL e oltre il 6 per cento dell’occupazione del Paese. Si mostra come negli anni più recenti il sistema turistico...

This paper provides new Bank of Italy indicators of price competitiveness for 62 countries. We refreshed the approach adopted by the Bank in the 1990s but later discontinued in 2005 due to the cumbersome statistical requirements in order to accommodate the significant extension of the original...

Using an extension of the methodology proposed by Koopman, Wang and Wei (2014) for quantifying the domestic value added in a country's exports of manufactures, this paper provides calculations of the market shares in value-added for a number of countries and compares them with the standard...