. Italien vollzog zum Beginn des Untersuchungszeitraums einen Systemwechsel von einem Sozialversicherungssystem zu einem …

that the studied countries (Finland, Israel, France, Italy, and the UK) evidence in the organization of their VC industries … has a strong Private Equity industry, it is, however, not focusing on early-stage or high tech areas. Italy and France … showed a significant presence of Venture Capital and Private Equity industries (public/private organisations), but in Italy …

directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state …

to take spatial dependence into account. Using data for Italy for the years 1991 and 2001, we apply exploratory spatial …

’s prosperity. The paper focuses on olitical events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in … 1999 has helped insulate Italy’s financial markets from the adverse consequences of its traditionally unstable political … system. We find that important political events have exerted a statistically and economically significant effect on Italy …

at a time-varying VAR model of Italy’s relative performance compared with the rest of the euro area, spanning from 1976 …