Il presente lavoro si propone di analizzare le caratteristiche strutturali dell’economia novarese e le traiettorie evolutive da questa seguite nell’arco dell’ultimo decennio, nell’intento di delinearne i principali punti di forza e di debolezza, anche alla luce delle nuove sfide...

In 1987, Greenwald and Stiglitz accused Keynes’s summary of the General Theory in chapter 18 of relying upon “neoclassical and Marshallian tools”. A number of contributions have on the contrary emphasized the methodological importance of this chapter, which this paper revisits in the light...

In order to generate the values associated to the judgements expressed into the customer satisfaction, the psycometric method uses the normal distribution. In a few conditions this function is the cause of preposterous values, that distort the scaling procedure. In case of frequencies...

We study the evolution of specialization patterns of the Italian provinces over 1995-2005 by analyzing the dynamics of the sectoral distribution of the Balassa index of revealed comparative advantages for several manufacturing sectors. Our results show that behind a relatively stable...

Since the second half of the 1990s the Italian economy has experienced a significant slowdown in the rate of economic growth. The ‘dwarfism’ of its manufacturing firms, their specialisation in traditional sectors and their organisation in industrial districts have been identified by many...