Public intervention in the banking sector takes three main forms: prudential regulation, especially with the Basel II ratio for adequacy of a bank's own funds for their exposure to risk ; insuring deposits, the goal of which is to ensure a minimum level of protection for depositors and savers in...

The automotive sector is the largest industrial R&D investor in the EU. The present note assesses which parts of the sector's research efforts are dedicated towards the development of low-carbon vehicle technologies. The results indicate that relevant companies invest significant amounts in the...

The issue of the rationale for public intervention under the systems of innovation perspective has recently received an increasing attention among scholars and practitioners. However, with few exceptions, this literature has been based on the analysis of innovation policies and innovation...

The paper carries out a review of the literature dealing with the Italian growth poles policy, from the 1950s to the end of the 1980s. The text is divided into three parts. The 4th Siderurgical Center and the start of the Alfasud car plant are the objects of the first two parts; the third part...

Improving the quality of education through the diversification of contents and methods and promoting experimentation, innovation, the diffusion and sharing of information and best practices as well as policy dialogue are UNESCO's strategic objectives in education. Educational systems are under...

After eight years of growth in developed countries, the current financial and economic crisis brought significant change in the economic landscape. The growth rate fell dramatically all over the globe, with direct implications on public finance. Although, at the moment, we can not clearly...

Cette étude spéciale dresse un bilan de l’évolution de la crise financière qui secoue l’économie mondiale depuis l’été 2007. Partie de l’immobilier aux États-Unis, elle s’est rapidement propagée à l’ensemble du système financier par le biais des mécanismes de titrisation....

A renewed interest in the thought and the works of Alberto Beneduce does not only serve to reflect again on a protagonist of the Italian events of the XX century, but it is also a way to address some central themes of the evolution of the Italian economy and to verify the relevance of his...