The contract furniture market in Italy accounts for approximately EUR 2.6 billion (at current prices). This segment has rapidly developed also in Italy since the contract market in the Arabian countries has boomed, about 15 years ago. Hospitality is the major business in Italy, accounting for...

CSIL has been studying the kitchen furniture market in Russia and Central Eastern Europe for almost 10 years and for the second time published a special report on the Russian kitchen furniture market. This edition of the Report analyses production, distribution, consumption, trade, competition...

The report analyzes the lighting fixtures market in Asia Pacific. It provides historical statistical data of Production, International trade and Market size 2007-2012 of the lighting fixtures industry for the 11 countries considered. Macroeconomic forecasts up to 2015 are also provided. Demand...

The CSIL report provides an overview of demand drivers for doing business in China: demographics, revenues, real estate investments in the major 200 cities country wide. The report is based on macroeconomic statistical data and direct interviews with a sample of companies to watch. This new CSIL...

This paper draws and expands from a recent ex-post evaluation carried out for the European Commission aimed at assessing the long term effects produced by a sample of ten major infrastructures in the Transport and Environment sectors and interpreting the key determinants of the observed...

This Report offers a comparative analysis of home furniture distribution in 13 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The report provides trends in home furniture consumption,...

The 24th edition of the report The European market for kitchen furniture offers an accurate comprehensive picture of the kitchen furniture industry in 17 Western European countries, providing 2008-2013 trends (in value and in volume) in kitchen furniture production and consumption, imports and...

The World Furniture Outlook 2014-2015 by CSIL provides an overview of the world furniture industry with historical statistical data (production, consumption, imports, exports) and 2014 and 2015 furniture markets scenario for 70 countries. This market research report also includes: Growth of...

This paper briefly reviews some of the empirical findings of a research team of the University of Milan on privatization in different countries. The discussed effects include: effects on consumers, tax-payers, workers, shareholders; on aggregate growth, public finance, firms’ productivity,...

This paper comments an important book by Maurice FG. Scott, «A New View of Economic Growth». The main contribution of the book is to show that capital investment can sustain endogenous growth, as it embodies technical progress. Neoclassical theories of growth are based on an error in...