Health care markets are typical examples of market failure, leading to relevant public regulation. In the last decade, the sector was widely reformed in many countries due to a growth of health care expenditure overwhelming economic growth. A common feature of the reforming process is the...

There is a wide consensus among scholars of the pharmaceutical sector that the American pharmaceutical sector has been much more dynamic and successful than the European one from the mid-1990s onward. The aim of this paper is to reconsider the statistical limelights commonly adopted to justify...

With aim of providing useful policy suggestion, it seems advisable to keep under consideration the assumptions underlying the Health Industry Model-HIM (Di Tommaso, Schweitzer 2000). This paper aims at providing useful information to gain an insight into a few typical behaviors of businesses in...

In the pharmaceutical industry, large-scale research and innovation have been broadly recognized as the major drivers of performance. While this paradigm is still valid, owing to the need to increase firms dimension in order to cope with the high risks related with innovation processes, it would...

The recent evolution of Italian capitalism shows the increasing relevance of medium-sized enterprises (MSE) at three levels: the economic and institutional environment, the ownership structure and the financing policy. A comparison of the financial structure of Italian MSEs with some European...

In our modern economy, the increasing weight of the services sector is not sufficient, per se, to start and boost an environmentally sustainable economic growth. Whatever the public policies pursued on the supply side of the production system, a strong intervention is needed on the demand side,...

Logistics is a critical issue of the new globalized world. Innovative technologies, integrated transportation systems and transport nodes are becoming crucial factors for competition in the international markets and for ensuring a sustainable development in the medium-long term. More investments...

The recent global financial crisis is having an extraordinary impact on real economy: a slowdown in growth, consumption and industrial activity trends, as well as an unsustainable increase in the rate of unemployment. The crisis blew up with the collapse of the US subprime mortgage market,...