The intent of this qualitative research is to investigate and understand the requisites of customer satisfaction for academic libraries’ users and to give managerial hints for the implementation of user centred academic library services. To this aim, we analyse the library services of two...

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, for West Germany, France, Italy and US, we econometrically select within a SVAR model some fiscal policy regimes, i.e. a u0094set of rulesu0094 for the implementation of fiscal policies. Second, we identify the fiscal policy shocks related to different...

In this paper we propose a relatively simple procedure to predict Euro-zone industrial production using mostly data derived from the business surveys of the three major economies within the European Monetary Union (France, Germany, and Italy). The basic idea is that of estimating business...

Die italienische Wirtschaft, die im Durchschnitt der letzten vier Jahre nahezu stagnierte, scheint sich gegenwärtig auf einem Erholungspfad zu befinden; zum ersten Mal seit dem Jahr 2001 dürfte das Wirtschaftswachstum 2006 und 2007 deutlich über der Ein-Prozent-Rate liegen. Dazu haben die...