Using survey data on cultural consumption by about 650 university students, this article proposes a market segmentation and some rule-of-thumb managerial implications for the music industry. The aim is to show how technological innovation impacts on the structure of consumer preferences....

This paper considers some open issues concerning the role of the personal income tax in regional and local finance. It compares different technical instruments to share the personal income tax among levels of government, analyzing particularly the differential effects of the two main forms of...

In this paper alternative reforms of present Italian personal income taxation, including a change of the tax unit and the introduction of a flat tax, are studied using a microsimulation model built on a representative sample of the Italian household population. The comparison is performed...

IRPEF – the Italian personal income tax – is the leading tax in terms of share of total government revenue in Italy. After a decade of reforms, the tax-benefit structure still exhibits several critical issues that need to be addressed. The paper presents a tax-benefit design proposal for...

This paper investigates the relationship between devolution and regional disparities by looking at the case of Italy. By integrating the relevant quantitative and qualitative evidence, it attempts to answer two questions. Did the devolutionary process exert a positive influence on regional...

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation success from firm surveys along with the usual R&D...

The paper aims at highlighting the role played by Altiero Spinelli in the circulation of economic ideas between the fascist period and a few years after WWII. We look at the changing sources of his economic culture, from Marxism to some Italian and British federalist liberal Authors and...

The broad question that inspires the article is the following: Why in consolidated national policy environments significant patterns of change in the field of employment have emerged over the past two decades? More specifically, how has the European Employment Strategy exercised pressures for...

The concept of competitive balance is a central aspect in the literature of sports economics. A popular argumentation of sport functionaries is that dominance of one or a few teams could lead to unequal incomes for the clubs, restrictions in the clubs’ ability to improve sporting performance...

The paper uses estimates, provided by the Central Statistical Office, of standard units of labor to examine how immigrants working (illegally) in the shadow economy affect the employment of (legal) labor in the official economy. The results of our cross sector-time series analysis of the demand...