Austerity Fiscal policies versus Development policies in Italy and European Union The debate on economic policy issues underway in Italy and EU shows two different stances: on one hand a support to restrictive budgetary policy, aimed at achieving the balance of government finance, as required by...

Accountability arrangements in networks present special concerns because of the potential for accountability to get "lost in the cracks of horizontal and hybrid governance" (Romzek et al 2012:443). Networks involve numerous cooperating agencies and/or subcontractors with different goals,...

Empirical research on the geographic distribution of US federal spending shows that small states receive disproportionately more dollars per capita. This evidence, often regarded as the consequence of Senate malapportionment, in reality con‡ates the effects of state population size with that...

This paper is aimed at studying the potentials of cultural heritage in the discourse of development in rural cultural landscapes. It studies the attributes of the integrated cultural landscape management in order to maintain sustainability of the cultural landscape as a holistic system of...

The strategy Europe 2020 launched by the European Commission at the beginning of the decade aims at a development process for the European Union that should be not only inclusive and sustainable but also “intelligentâ€, that is on knowledge-based. The increasing of knowledge and its...

Una ricostruzione del dibattito sullo sviluppo dell'industria nell'Italia postunitaria ci riporta ad uno scontro durissimo fra economisti, che pur nella diversa derivazione ed impegno accademico, hanno assunto tutti ruoli e responsabilita' politiche nel loro tempo. Comparando le dinamica dei...

The evolution socio-demographics of the province of Ferrara in the 150 years since the Unification of Italy. Among the many initiatives developed during the 150 years of the Unification of Italy also included a survey conducted, in collaboration with a small group of students (or undergraduates)...

L'aggiustamento fiscale 2009-2013 intrapreso dall'Italia pone forte il problema dell'equita' della sua distribuzione sui diversi comparti della Pubblica Amministrazione. In questo contributo si pone in evidenza come il saldo cosiddetto euro-compatibile possa portare ad una distribuzione...

This paper provides an econometric examination of geographic R&D spillovers among countries by focusing on the issue of cross-sectional dependence, and in particular on the dierent ways { weak and strong { it may aect the model. A preliminary analysis based on the estimation of the exponent of...

Many authoritative scholars of Business Administration reported limits to teaching exclusively through frontal lectures, as traditionally taught in degree courses in Economics. The IFAC (International Federation of Accountants) recommends a less passive approach to teaching by providing more...