The research focuses on project bonds in Italy. Project bonds are issued to finance infrastructures and public works. This financial instrument, extensively debated in Italy and in Europe, seems designed to attract private investment and to ensure financing costs lower than bank loans....

This book is a collection of select works presented (in a rather informal editing) at the 28th Congress of the International Confederation of Mutual Banks held in Marrakesh on 21-23 October 2012 and is the result of the collaboration between Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CRANEC) of...

The aim of the research is to analyse and summarise two EU programmes within the EU Multiannual Financial Framework (2014-2020): Horizon 2020 and COSME (Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Mediumsized Enterprises). They are conceived to stimulate, respectively, research, innovation, and...

Golf played by country residents is and golf tourism are widely increasing. In particular, golf tourism is getting increasingly important as compared to the other forms of tourism. The golf tourist has a high income, is more educated and environmentally conscious than the other classes of...

T The objective of this contribution is to evaluate the performance and build up a profile of Italian medium-size and medium large multinationals who represent the "fourth capitalism”. In fact, the companies' “fourth capitalism" is the set of medium and medium-large enterprises who seem to...

The essay aims at arguing that investing in knowledge is one of the main cause of the deep transformations in the structure of modern economies and also a strategic engine for the long run growth. In the recent years a clear long-standing trend in the OECD area have emerged, which is reflected...

The paper examines the components of the paradigm defined by the author to describe the foundations of the European Union: growth, construction, convention and constitution. Firstly, the paper focuses on “growth” and “construction” because they are considered preliminary conditions to...

Questo lavoro si propone di avviare l’elaborazione sistematica di una teoria delle piccole imprese di famiglia basata sul principio di sussidiarietà. Le innumerevoli piccole e piccolissime imprese che costituiscono il nucleo del sistema produttivo italiano ed europeo, sono caratterizzate da...

Questo lavoro si propone di illustrare le principali tappe del complesso processo legislativo che ha portato nel nostro paese al riconoscimento formale dei distretti industriali, e di fornire un aggiornamento delle normative regionali in materia di distretti. In seguito all’adozione della...

Agriculture is a special sector both for developed and developing countries. The second chapter provides an overview of the reasons why agriculture is so special. The third chapter analyzes relationships between agriculture, international trade, liberalization of markets and economic development...