Like all transition economies, South Eastern Europe (SEE) countries stand to gain most from an export-led growth. Unfortunately, though, productive structure in these countries is largely made up of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that, due to their limited size, may face obstacles to gain...

In this paper we give a detailed exposition of the fifth version of our model of the Italian economy, which is specified as a set of 24 nonlinear stochastic differential equations. We first examine its qualitative properties (steady state solution, structural stability, etc.). We then present...

This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational purposes using different forms of commitment. Variants of a dictator game in a lab-in-the-field experiment with Filipino migrants in Rome are used to examine remitting behavior...