An endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents and endogenous rates of fertility is developed to study the relationships between population growth, human capital, migration and economic development. A variety of patterns of migration, from the migration of the unskilled to the brain drain...

The aim of the paper is to account for the choice of a definition of the banking output suitable for the efficiency analysis of the italian banking system. A short survey of the literature allows to underline that the variety of definitions is linked to the empirical background and or to the...

Il nome e l'idea di Europa; sintesi delle tappe storiche dell'integrazione europea;la Convenzione euroea ela Costituzione : lo svolgimento dei lavori, la struttura del progetto, il trattato che adotta la costituzione, la ratifica, l'interruzione del processo di ratifica.

The main purpose of this paper is to merge together two strands of the literature regarding, either directly or indirectly, infation: the PPP and the Phillips curve ones. In order to accomplish this task, this contribution applies the tools of the Empirical Growth Literature and of Dynamic Panel...

This paper aims at characterizing the dynamics of R&D competition within the pharmaceutical domain, focusing on the role of patent disclosure, the extent of uncertainty, and role of scientific advances. Following the empirical literature in the economics of innovation, we employ patents as a...

Lo smaltimento dei rifiuti è uno dei principali problemi che le economie moderne debbono affrontare. In questo lavoro si è studiato il caso di una particolare categoria di rifiuti, quelli generati dalle apparecchiature elettriche ed elettroniche dismesse (RAEE), che sta da qualche tempo...

This paper aims to highlight the main features of Amoroso's reflections on macroeconomic dynamics to which he dedicated a large part of his scientific activity. He developed an original theory of business cycle and he formulated a dynamic generalisation of the Paretian theory of general economic...

Unlike in structural and reduced-form models, we use equity as a liquid and observable primitive to analytically value corporate bonds and credit default swaps. Restrictive assumptions on the firm’s capital structure are avoided. Default is parsimoniously represented by equity value hitting...

The study of intergenerational mobility deals with questions regarding the opportunities of children and how their long run economic outcome is related to their family background. Most importantly, from a policy point of view, it is trying to understand the sources of persistence in economic...