This paper examines how the last wave of the European Union enlargement process has influenced the export competitiveness of EU countries. A technology-augmented gravity model is applied to distinguished manufacturing sectors to test the effect of the economic integration as well as the role of...

This paper describes the methodology, characteristics and potential use of BioPat, a dataset containing patents in the field of biofuels. The innovative methodology we use aims to solve drawbacks related to how patent data are allocated and organized in international databases. In order to...

In this work we present space-time models with simultaneous effect in which the relations between phenomenon measured in different sites are not determined on the base of an a priori structure, but are estimated in the model’s estimation procedure. This approach avoids superimposition of a...

Toward a reassessment of the role of co-operative enterprises as a tool for fighting poverty both from the academic community and the international organisations, the paper aims at contributing to the understanding of the added value of the co-operative form of business especially in a...

This paper investigates the opportunity of a Procompetitive interpretation of Private Law through an interdisciplinary analysis of Competition Law with Contract Law. The purpose of the research is to demonstrate that the traditional Civil Law might be differently considered and interpreted in...

The paper examines the issue of Egyptian migration to Italy, a phenomenon that has undoubtedly increased in recent years. It describes the main socio-demographic characteristics of the group and analyze its distribution in the Italian territory; evaluates the degree of integration of Egyptian...

The aim of this paper is to re-examine the relationship between fiscal federalism and the size of local governments. Traditionally, the empirical studies have focused on the different accountability power of grants and local taxes, concluding that the former encourages the growth and the latter...

I provide a complete characterization of equilibrium with risk of default in sequential economies under uncertainty. Default induces permanent exclusion from financial markets and not-too-tight solvency constraints prevent debt repudiation at equilibrium. The method of analysis relies on a...

In the present paper we will introduce a coecient of multivariate association i.e. association in a d-variate vector of observations x = (x1; : : : ; xd), where d 2 and where each xj is itself a vector of n observations. We order the observations, divide them in slices and count how many times...

Quality management and customer satisfaction evaluation can be difficult tasks to perform when processes involve multiple production lines or provide multichannel services. As a consequence, the top management needs to check the quality from different perspectives and to evaluate the improvement...