The aim of this work is the identification and the description of groups of regions belonging to eight European countries in order to evaluate the role of productive specialization in determining regional income growth. The novelty of the study is the application of a new methodology, the...

<i> A Stochastic Approach to the Efficient Frontier of the Italian Banking Sector: Bank’s Characteristics and Technical Inefficiency </i> (di Rita De Siano) - ABSTRACT: During the 1990s the Italian banking sector experienced a considerable evolution due, first of all, by the accelerating process of...

<i> Financial Variables as Leading Indicators: Evidence from the G7 Countries </i> (by Rita De Siano) - ABSTRACT: This study analyses the behaviour of financial variables, such as the stock market return index and interest rates, over the business cycle phases in order to ascertain whether they can be...

The aim of the study is to investigate the presence of “convergence clubs†among Italian regions applying the stochastic notion of convergence. Regions are sorted according to some human capital accumulation indicators using the Classification and Regression Tree Analysis (CART). The...

This paper investigates the determinants of Italian regional specialization in the period 1995-2006. In particular, it tests and evaluates the presence of spatial autocorrelation in sectoral specialization patterns by the use of spatial econometrics tools. Results show positive effects of...