In this paper, we analyze firms' pricing behavior using a full informative micro dataset that accounts for a large part of Italian firms. In our view, “the black boxes” to examine are the relations between price setting, market structure and spatial disparities. The paper aims to extend the...

This paper aims at investigating the presence of extra profits for the factoring companies operating with health sector credits. Using a panel data sample representative of Italian factoring companies, the analysis also examines, along with other factors, the determinants of corporate financial...

Il lavoro affronta l’ampia tematica dei sistemi di finanziamento delle aree protette. Prendendo spunto dalle politiche pubbliche messe in atto dall’Italia per la salvaguardia dei parchi naturali, si è cercato di valutare l’efficienza di un sistema di prezzi quale forma di finanziamento di...

In this paper, we propose a Bayesian VAR model to examine the short term effects of monetary policy shocks on the Italian economy. Firstly, our BVAR model uses the Cholesky decomposition to identify four kinds of macroeconomic shocks, namely, supply, demand, interest rate and monetary shocks....