Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether management strategies implemented by non-commercial traders may be identified as a key factor in affecting oil price paths in the conventional pre- and post-financialization periods. Design/methodology/approach: By using a vector...

Over the past two decades increasing transformations involving the commodities pricing mechanisms jointly with relevant innovations introduced in financial markets spurred controversial issues both among policy-makers, practitioners and scholars about resulting overall effects on the economy....

In the present paper we are aiming to establish how the price of the most important durable goods, in Italy as well as in other industrialised countries, has changed, over time, in relation to the per-capita average income, in order to identify trends and causes.The observed trends have been...

The current tendency towards product differentiation in many areas of manufacturing is generally considered to be a positive phenomenon. What we have attempted to do here is to analyse the real degree of diversification that exists within the vehicles industry (in the case of all those models of...

The main aim of the paper is to propose an analysis involving prices and technical features of cars in order to obtain an empirical model revealing firms' behaviours in the marketplace. Such a type of approach seems justified by the fact that both of these variables (prices and technical...

This paper carries out a study of the interrelation between total consumption-GDP ratio of different key metals (aluminium, copper, lead, nickel, tin and zinc) and per capita income investigating if the environmental Kuznets' curve (EKC) could be considered – in empirical terms – as a...

In this article the authors point out main problems and perspectives related to the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol in Italy. After a brief and general introduction for explaining main concerns and institutional frameworks involved in the development of international procedures suitable to...