The US retailing industry has been experiencing substantial decline over the last few years. This has been manifested in layoffs, changes in management, inventory write-downs, dis-continuation and stream lining of online marketing efforts, bankruptcy, reduced capital expenditures, store closings...

This paper investigates the consistency of the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan with the economic and industrial policy objectives outlined in the "Next Generation EU" plan and the European Commission's New European Industrial Policy. We analyze official policy documents in order to...