Born as the "subprime crisis" in the US, in a two year time the financial and economic crisis has assumed truly global features, as it has involved the entire spectrum of countries and geographical areas together with a very wide set of markets and sectors. Remarkable differences, however,...

The attention in Italy of listed firms, financial analysts and the press is stressing the relevance of the level of debt in distribution (water, gas, electricity) operators. The aim of this article is to highlight that the reduction of the debt normally comes with the underinvestment in...

From the 10 year enforcement of Law 488, it is possible to deduce on the one hand its neutrality in terms of industries, in coherence with a low-technology specialization model; on the other its contribution to the growth of local systems with cluster organizations emerging or characterized by...

One feature of the Italian chemical sector today is the presence of a number of small and medium enterprises, very specialized and able to generate good margins in comparison to those of their EU counterparts. The main characteristics of this phenomenon are the wide variety of the sub-sector...

To better understand the present situation of the Italian chemical industry it is necessary to analyse the most important changes occurred in the world chemical industry, studying the main causes and the consequences they can provoke to Italian companies. Nowadays the traditional big chemical...

The performance of Italian economy has always been a fascinating puzzle for economists, both during the miraculous economic boom and in the current age of zero growth. This paper identifies the sluggish productivity dynamic as the main explanatory factor of Italian growth limits. It analyses the...

The paper deals with the relevant role of the Economics of Industry/Industrial Organizationand its scientific method in analyzing the difficulties of Italian economic system. Afterhaving reviewed the development of the Economics of Industry and Industrial Organization,the paper focuses on the...

Reconsidering the model of dynamic competition originally presented by J. Steindl (in: "Essays in Honour of M. Kalecky", 1964) relating profit margins and concentration with the rate of growth of the market demand, in a more broad and general purpose, this article states that the optimal...

The article considers the necessity to accelerate the development of our country, that strictly depends on the evolution of productivity, and therefore of competitiveness. The competitiveness of a territory mainly relies on the incidence of the logistic cost functions over the gross domestic...