La Nota aggiuntiva del 1962 è il documento di politica economica che segna l’inizio dei governi di centro-sinistra e propone la programmazione come strumento di soluzione dei problemi economici italiani. In questo lavoro si analizza il rapporto tra stato e mercato che emerge da questo...

In the present paper the link between renewable energy generation and imports dynamics is explored in import demand equations. We find that renewable energy generation reduces import growth. Results display a considerable robustness.

In this work, we study the short- and long-run properties of different inequality series vis-à-vis the most important macroeconomic series for a set of OECD countries. We employ standard tools of time series macro-econometrics (e.g. stationarity tests, detrending, comovements analysis,...

Questo lavoro assume che la brevettazione rappresenti uno degli indici più significativi per misurare il grado di innovazione di un sistema industriale ed intende analizzare il fenomeno della protezione della proprietà intellettuale nel contesto territoriale veneto, con particolare riferimento...

Dopo aver introdotto denominazione, principi base, evoluzione degli investimenti sostenibili e responsabili, il lavoro cerca di fare sintesi della loro classificazione e crescita nel mercato mondiale ed europeo in questi ultimi anni. L’analisi si incentra, poi, sul confronto fra l’andamento...

We experimentally investigate cooperation within a finitely repeated public goods game framework where peer punishment is possible but, unlike previous work, in each round access to sanctioning power is exclusively awarded to the group’s top contributor. We compare this mechanism with a...

Climate change scenarios predict an increase of extreme rain events, which will increase the risk of wastewater flooding and of missing legal water quality targets. This study elicits the willingness to pay to reduce ecological and health risks from combined sewer overflows in rivers and lakes,...

The European Council of 8 February 2013, with its decision to cut the EU budget to 1% of GDP, made a great mistake: it aggravated the recession of the European economy and, tacitly, admitted that a European recovery policy is impossible. In this paper the Authors show that with an annual EU...

What are the individual characteristics that predict unethical behavior? To answer this question we randomly interviewed 541 passengers who used the bus in Reggio Emilia (Italy). Exploiting the high level of fare evasion (43% without a valid ticket) we find that young, male and non-Caucasian...

This paper compares dierent centralized collective models for maximizing the utility of a household from the point of view of the single members that compose it. We describe the collective maximization program as a vector optimization problem and analyze the household welfare and Pareto...