During the nineties, Europe became a major recipient of FDIs but Italian regions have been largely excluded from this process. Was it due to their characteristics, or were Italian regions ‘doomed’ by a negative country effect? In this paper we address this issue by estimating the...

Research on the transition from school to work is increasingly focusing on the horizontal stratification of educational systems, that is on how different educational tracks have an effect on students’ occupational chances. In the case of tertiary education, this means analyzing how different...

La legge 17 Maggio n. 144 del 1999 richiedeva a tutte le amministrazioni centrali e regionali in Italia di dotarsi di un nucleo di valutazione degli investimenti pubblici a supporto dell'attività di programmazione "con la finalità di migliorare e... dare maggiore qualità ed efficienza al...

HISTORICAL, GEOPOLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FACTORS AFFECTING STATE AND NATION BOUNDARIES: FOREWORD ON ITALY’S BORDERS IN ISTRIA AND DALMATIA. - Boundaries of states are often taken as a given although they seem, in not a few instances, to be quite arbitrary. Their origins and changes through the...

After looking at the relationship between journalism and public relations (PR) we analyze the impact of Internet on this interplay. A content analysis was conducted in order to investigate the utilization of the Internet for communicating corporate information -especially media relations - by...

This paper considers the impact of the Constitutional Court on legislative output in Italy.Following Tsebelis' (2002) veto players model and the stylised facts as regards the Italian Constitutional Court's activity, this paper presents a multi-stage game in the spirit of Gely and Spiller (1990)....

A firm\'s export status may improve its capacity of introducing product innovations. We explore this idea using very rich firm-level data on Italian A firm\'s export status may improve its capacity of introducing product innovations. We explore this idea using very rich firm-level data on...