This Report is the result of 200 interviews with key players (Contract Furniture Manufacturers, Design Studios and Builders, Hotel Chains and other relevant Clients) and two years of CSIL research in China, on contract-related topics. Figures and analysis are described from two different point...

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...

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...

This report provides an overview of the world trade of major appliances (including the following segments: refrigerators+freezers, washers+driers, dishwashers, hoods, cooking appliances) with 2004-2010 data at world-wide level and 2005-2010 data on the evolution of appliances trade in 50...

This research on the Chinese office furniture market provides market size, historical trends of office furniture production and consumption, imports and exports. The report is enriched by an in-depth analysis of the competitive system in terms of company dimension, manufacturing locations and...

This market research offers an overview of the mattress retail industry in four leading European markets. The report provides basic data (consumption, imports, production and exports of mattresses),activity trends as well as driving forces for demand for each country. The study focuses on the...

This report offers an overview of the kitchen furniture distribution market. The analysis of kitchen furniture distribution channels covers: building trade and contract, kitchen specialist, furniture independent retailers, furniture chains, e-commerce, buying groups and franchising. Reference...