The Ease of Doing Business (EDB) is one of the standard tools for quantifying the impact of regulations on economic activities. It acts as a kind of "cholesterol test" for nationwide economies and seems to be used to determine the requisites of borrowing countries. The paper discusses that the...

Once particular markets do not work well, resulting in serious negative effects for consumers, businesses and the entire economy, the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) might opt to carry out sector studies, the so-called «indagini conoscitive». By means of these IAA offers to private firms and...

The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the results of a regional economic impactanalysis aimed at quantifying the local macroeconomic effects (on employment and income)generated by the veterinary epidemiology centre «Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentaledell'Abruzzo e del Molise "G....

This paper focuses on economic diversity in Italian provinces and tests whether it is associated to growth. First the degree of diversity of Italian provinces is measured. Data concern employment levels at provincial level over the period 1951-2001 across 47 industries. Second the correlation...