Whenever you are faced with issues such as the economic growth and the development of a country, among the many economic meanings and not that are questioned as possible obstacles, there is always a particular one: corruption. It is well known that the presence of corruption, mainly in the...

This paper investigates whether firms’ joint implementation of product, process and organizational innovation may foster their propensity of exporting. We study the relationship of complementarity among innovation practices when exporting is the firms’ objective function, through...

Since the beginning of the crisis, which occurred in 2008, the European Union has taken a series of measures to stem the financial crisis. One of these has been the Fiscal Compact. The Fiscal Compact is an International Treaty signed by 25 countries of the European Union. Ever since it was...

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)...