<em>I processi di riforma nei servizi pubblici locali nell’Unione europea: tra regolazione comunitaria e «istanze» nazionali</em> (di Stefano Costa e Luisa Sciandra) - ABSTRACT: In last decades public utilities in eu have been at the centre of a great liberalization program. The constant...

In this paper, a first assessment of the 2007 reform of the Italian Anti-Money Laundering (AML) law is presented. In light of the relevant literature on AML, the reform seems to improve the Italian AML framework in many ways, but there persist some drawbacks on both the legal and the enforcement...

Abstract The paper shows how - using as an example the trade flows between eleven European countries and 31 OECD `reporting' countries - the result of a gravity model, in terms of potential trade, changes substantially when country heterogeneity and dynamics are taken into account. Comparing the...

In this paper we study the effect of the single currency across industries for euro area members. This analysis may help to shed light on the main factors influencing the euro effect on trade flows. We intend to verify whether these factors are specific to individual sectors and/or countries or...