Compiling Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) allows to analyse the circular flow of income in a deeper detail compared to the traditional T-accounts. SAMs classify economic flows introducing social and demographic criteria with a special attention devoted to the households sector. Such a...

Recently, the number of state interventions and of firm subsidies has largely increased. However, the possible outcome of such interventions is rather am-biguous. This paper investigates the impact of firm subsidies granted by Ger-man regional policy. The long experiences made with regional...

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in Italy. The analysis draws on the 2000 wave of the Multipurpose Survey on Household conducted by the Italian Institute of Statistics on a representative sample of the population...