The paper focuses on the theoretical and empirical issues concerning the definition of the R&D stock. R&D stock is not technical change and therefore it should be considered only as a proxy of it. What enters the usual production function is rather the stock of technological knowledge. The...

This article investigates the impact of both the Common Agricultural Policy and structural policies on European regions by estimating a conditional growth convergence model. The Common Agricultural Policy influences the convergence process by affecting regional aggregate productivity, eventually...

This paper investigates the non-monetary motivations of farmers’ adoption of agro-environmental policies. Unlike the monetary (income) motivations, non-monetary drivers can not be directly observed but can be identified from observational data within appropriate quasi-experimental designs. A...