Market-based instruments such as white certificates offer the potential to increase efficiency gains, reduce primary energy consumption and make energy systems more resilient. The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the white certificate scheme through a case study analysis. In...

This study examines the impact of human capital formation and accumulation on renewable energy consumption and generation. Dynamic panel data over an extended time (2004–2018) within a meso-level setting (i.e. Italian regions) were used. The role of real income per capita as a standard...

By exploiting firm level balance sheet data from the Cerved database and employment data from the INPS database, we provide a detailed description of the productivity performance of Italian industrial districts firms over the 2003-2017 period. The main structural features of industrial districts...

Prices collection for consumer price indices (CPI) compilation has come a long way in the past 20 years. While ideally, the index should include expenditure made by all households, urban and rural, throughout the country, usually CPIs in various countries had limited geographic coverage both for...

This paper investigates the relationship between fertility dynamics and female labor force participation in Italy after WWII. By integrating extant statistics with census data and new reconstructions at the regional level, we first provide stylized facts about the relationship between female...

The fast-changing scenario emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic pushed firms to operate in an uncharted territory. Firms had to adapt quickly to survive in an unpredictable market. Based on a quantitative survey, the study aims at assessing how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) responded...

This paper explores the interplay between two dimensions of trust i.e., political and interpersonal trust, and the spread of COVID-19 in European regions. To undertake our analysis we combine sub-national (NUTS 1 regions) data for trust from ten consecutive rounds of the European Social Survey...

Brain drain is a growing concern for many countries experiencing large emigration rates of their highly educated citizens. While several European countries have designed preferential tax schemes to attract high-skilled individuals, there is limited empirical evidence on the effectiveness of...