We investigate what amount of risk sharing European countries entering a monetary union can hope to achieve by looking at the regions of Italy and the UK: two countries with very different financial systems and policy regimes. More precisely, we measure the contribution to risk sharing stemming...

This paper presents and discusses findings of research carried out on a sample of 141 tourism stakeholders with two tourism destinations located in Sardinia, Italy. Specifically, it investigates: (1) the priorities that respondents consider essential to attain sustainability and competitiveness...

This work reflects an initial analysis employing a pioneering new OECD database; it is among the first systematic attempts to analyse comparatively the distribution of innovative activity across regions in OECD economies with a set of homogenous measures for both input and output in the process...