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Destination image built by the cinema: The case of "Basilicata Coast to Coast"
Bencivenga, Angelo; Chiarullo, Livio; Colangelo, Delio; … - 2012
the effects of the film Basilicata Coast to Coast, by Rocco Papaleo, on tourism in Basilicata, (a small region in the …
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The Basilicata Wealth Fund: Resource Policy and Long-run Economic Development in Southern Italy
Iacono, Roberto - 2015
proposing a new resource policy for the oil-rich southern Italian region of Basilicata. The policy proposal is to establish a … (regional) wealth fund in which all the royalty revenues from non-renewable natural resource exploitation in Basilicata would be … is a novel approach that can be applied to other resource-rich regions in the world. I label the fund as the Basilicata …
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Covid-19 e didattica a distanza.Il caso Basilicata, una regione a rischio digital divide
De Filippo, Marcella; Percoco, Annalisa; Voce, Angela - 2020
argumentation, we outline some of the good practices present in Basilicata, which for several years now has been experimenting with …
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Employment, innovation and productivity: Evidence from Italian microdata
Hall, Bronwyn; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - 2006
Italian manufacturing ¯rms have been losing ground with respect to many of their European competitors. This paper presents some empirical evidence on the e®ects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on ¯rms' productivity with the goal of understanding the roots of such poor...
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Is there a retirement consumption puzzle in Italy?
Miniaci, Raffaele; Monfardini, Chiara; Weber, Guglielmo - 2003
In this paper we investigate the way consumption changes around retirement in Italy. Using micro data covering the 1985-96 period, we find that consumption age patterns are similar to those found in the US and other developed countries, despite the much more wide-spread cohabitation of different...
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Information, social mobility and the demand for redistribution
Feri, Francesco - 2008
This paper studies how heterogeneity in income dynamics affects the POUM hypothesis (the idea that poor people do not support high level of redistribution because they hope to be rich in the future). We consider a setting where individuals evaluate their expected future income using both their...
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Smart choices for growth
Zachmann, Georg - 2012
Recovery in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain is held back in part by structural barriers. Overcoming these requires structural reform and public investment. Given the limited availability of political and financial capital, prioritising reform efforts and spending is important, but difficult....
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Do Clean Hands ensure healthy growth? Theory and practice in the battle against corruption
Coppier, Raffaella; Costantini, Mauro; Piga, Gustavo - 2009
This paper analyzes the existing relationship between economic growth and the monitoring of corruption and examines the possible outcome of the implementation of a State reform in order to weed out corruption. Growth is always higher when monitoring is high and therefore corruption eradicated....
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Combination of forecast methods using encompassing tests: An algorithm-based procedure
Costantini, Mauro; Pappalardo, Carmine - 2008
This paper proposes a strategy to increase the efficiency of forecast combining methods. Given the availability of a wide range of forecasting models for the same variable of interest, our goal is to apply combining methods to a restricted set of models. To this aim, an algorithm procedure based...
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Policy-relevant assessment method of socio-economic impacts of floods: An Italian case study
Farinosi, Fabio; Carrera, Lorenzo; Maziotis, Alexandros; … - 2012
This paper estimates the direct and indirect socio-economic impacts of the 2000 flood that took place in the Po river basin (Italy) using a combination of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model and Spatial and Multi-Criteria Analysis. A risk map for the whole basin is generated as a function...
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