This paper analyzes the stochastic convergence in per capita income levels among the current G-7 over the period 1900-89. We show that, in the presence of possible structural breaks, the strong condition of stationary pair-wise differences between per capita GDP holds in many more cases than...

The paper analyses the relationship between the average quantity of a good demanded by a consumer in a single act of purchase and the price setting behaviour of firms, in the presence of consumers' uncertainty about prices. A decrease of the average quantity purchased leads consumers to reduce...

We analyze the price structure of sequential auctions of modern and contemporary art that took place in Italy during the period 1983-96. Contrary to previous empirical studies, we do not find any "afternoon" effect - i.e., a decline of auction prices relative to their estimates.If anything, we...

Nominal wage adjustment is modeled as resulting from bargaining between a risk neutral …rm and a risk averse worker, in an environment where the rate of in‡ation is a random variable. Risk aversion makes for endogenous indexation arrangements, which deliver partial indexation as they exploit...

In this paper we assess the appeal of potential interventions on the tourism offer of Rimini, a popular Italian seaside holiday destination, by means of a choice modelling analysis. Tourism can be viewed as a composite good, its overall utility depending on the arrangement of the component...

Il confronto tra indici di infrastrutturazione basati sulla consistenza fisica degli stock, e misure derivate da stime degli stock ottenute per mezzo della tecnica dell'inventario permanente, permette di giudicare l'efficienza relativa di diverse unita' territoriali nel trasformare risorse...

In questo lavoro si descrive la costruzione di una base di dati dello stock di capitale, sia privato che pubblico, nelle regioni italiane. Il capitale privato e' calcolato utilizzando come riferimento una ripartizione regionale dello stock aggregato per l'anno 1981. Le stime per gli altri anni,...

We address the issue of whether public infrastructure play an important role in determining factor productivity in Italy, and we show that the evidence is mixed. Public capital is significant in explaining output in most cases. However, when the attention is drawn on the long-run properties of...

This paper addresses the question of whether trade interdependencies are significant in explaining the international synchronization of business cycles, or "international business cycles". Using an econometric framework that combines the concept of separate cointegration (Granger an Konishi,...

L'interesse per lo studio delle dinamiche economiche regionali è stato a lungo ostacolato dalla carenza di dati utilizzabili. In questo lavoro si descrive la costruzione di una banca dati dello stock di capitale, sia privato che pubblico, nelle regioni italiane. Entrambi sono costruiti con la...