Most of the literature on the relationship between firm’s participation in international markets and firm heterogeneity focuses on export and foreign direct investment. This paper considers a wider range of forms of internationalisation that firms could combine into different patterns. With...

In contingent valuation surveys the category of zero bidders refers to individuals that are not willing to pay anything for the programme under analysis. Specific questions can help to identify true zero values, coming from people that are indifferent to the programme, separately from protest...

The dichotomous choice contingent valuation method can be used either in the single or double bound formulation. The former is easier to implement, while the latter is known to be more efficient. We analyse the bias of the ML estimates produced by either model, and the gain in efficiency...

A<sc>ntonietti</sc> R., F<sc>errante</sc> M. R. and L<sc>eoncini</sc> R. Spatial agglomeration, production technology and the choice to make and/or buy: empirical evidence from the Emilia Romagna machine tool industry, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Using a new firm-level dataset, the decision, and relative intensity, to source either...

type="main" <p>We analyze the anti-poverty effect of social cash transfers using a micro-econometric approach. Aggregate analyses, based on comparing average poverty indicators before and after public transfers, fail to address who receives the transfers and how the transfers are distributed among...</p>

A model-based small area method for calculating estimates of poverty rates based on different thresholds for subsets of the Italian population is proposed. The subsets are obtained by cross-classifying by household type and administrative region. The suggested estimators satisfy the following...