<i> L'efficienza tecnica nel settore dei servizi idrici </i> (di Marco Percoco) - ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to provide an empirical assessment of technical efficiency in the Italian water service industry. After providing a descriptive framework for production technology, financial variables...

Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature due to the lack of consensus on the most suitable operationalisation for the analysis of innovative dynamics. This paper aims to fill this gap by looking at social capital as propensity towards civicness and prosocial...

type="main" xml:lang="es" <title type="main">Resumen</title> <p>En los últimos años, un creciente cuerpo de literatura ha comenzado a considerar la posible presencia de una dependencia de la trayectoria en los procesos de desarrollo de los países. Este fenómeno siempre ha sido reconocido en los estudios regionales y...</p>

In recent decades, owing to a series of public debt crises and constraints on government expenditure, infrastructure investment has dropped significantly in both developed and developing countries. To counterbalance this trend, Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) schemes have been increasingly...

<i> La tassa sui rifiuti solidi urbani: strumento di politica ambientale o semplice mezzo per la copertura dei costi di servizio? </i> (di Marco Percoco) - ABSTRACT: Recent acts on municipal solid waste management have introduced some innovation in environment fiscal system. Previous tax (substantially...

This article aims at analysing the effect of temporal aggregation in space-time autoregressive models. By means of a simulation experiment, it is shown that, the greater the spatial dependence in time series, the lower the bias due to temporal aggregation. However, the ratio between the average...

The aim of this article is to verify whether public investment in infrastructure is effective in terms of growth. While there is extensive literature analysing the effect of public capital stock on development and growth, comparatively less attention has been devoted to the contractual...

The aim of this paper is to uncover how the patterns of competition and complementarity in the regional system of Italy can explain its persistent internal disparities in spite of cohesion efforts by the European Commission. Our analysis is based on the application of the Dendrinos-Sonis model...