Recent legislation promotes the adoption of Circular Economy (CE) principles in restructuring supply chains (SCs), being aimed at circling back - through reusing, remanufacturing and recycling actions- end-of-life (EoL) products into production networks. In this sense, the appropriate design of...

In the last decade, the concept of ‘Circular Economy' (CE) has gained prominence in the political and corporate discourse around the world. According to its proponents, CE represents a new paradigm that will push the frontiers of environmental sustainability by transforming the relationships...

In examining the determinants of Italian deposit interest rates, we compares alternative econometric packages for estimating panel data. We focus on bank deposits, one of the main forms Italian households use to invest their financial wealth. We survey the literature on deposit rates, with...

Providing the possibility to run personalised econometric/statistical analyses on the appropriate data sets by remote processing allows greater flexibility in the production of economic information. Binding confidentiality requirements are required with business survey data. The Bank of Italy's...

One of the main difficulties in building financial accounts is the necessity of reconciling different sources and complying with the aggregation constraints. The Italian financial accounts are available on an annual basis from 1950 to 2004 (see Bonci and Coletta in this volume). Quarterly series...

Both temporal disaggregation techniques and bridge models are tools to analyse the GDP dynamics in the very short run (the current quarter), though their methodological approaches differ on how to exploit the available monthly information. The aim of this paper is to propose a way to merge the...

Providing the possibility to run personalised econometric/statistical analyses on the appropriate data sets by remote processing allows greater flexibility in the production of economic information. Binding confidentiality requirements are required with business survey data. The Bank of Italy's...