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The paper provides an overview of the main statistics produced by the Bank of Italy: financial accounts, monetary statistics, balance of payments, household and business surveys. The volume discusses the problems related to the measurement of economic phenomena, how statistics can be used for...
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Social scientists, in particular sociologists, claim that the distinction between universalistic and particularistic values is relevant to explaining the social behaviour of individuals (and societies). This paper provides preliminary empirical evidence that supports the claim. It first defines...
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This paper investigates the effects of subsidies on the investment decisions of a sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We use survey information on firms' subjective evaluations of the investment they would have undertaken without financing, finding that subsidies have limited effectiveness as...
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Italian Abstract: Il lavoro analizza l'evoluzione recente delle economie del Nord Ovest italiano, concentrandosi sui fenomeni della deindustrializzazione e della terziarizzazione dell'economia. Dal confronto con un gruppo di regioni europee definibili come “industriali avanzate”, emerge come...
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Il lavoro documenta la recente evoluzione del sistema industriale italiano e discute i principali fattori che influiscono sulla sua competitività. Dall'analisi emerge un quadro di diffusa debolezza. In tutti i comparti industriali i livelli produttivi sono inferiori a quelli precedenti la...
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This paper analyzes the characteristics of Italian firms involved in global value chains (“intermediate” firms) by using the Bank of Italy survey on industrial companies. Intermediate firms show, on average, worse features than “final” firms: smaller size, lower share of white collars,...
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Global Value Chains (GVCs) have been one of the main transmission mechanisms of 2009 the Great Trade Collapse. Our paper provides a description of the effects of the crisis from a perspective that is both country-comparative (Germany and Italy) and on firm level. Two are the main conclusions: i)...
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Italian Abstract: Lo scopo di questo lavoro è presentare una panoramica dei risultati di un recente progetto di ricerca della Banca d'Italia. Il lavoro inizia discutendo come il sistema urbano italiano sia stato, in passato, plasmato dall'interazione tra geografia e eventi storici. Più...
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Italian Abstract: L’obiettivo di questo lavoro è fornire un quadro statistico aggiornato sui principali indicatori relativi ai divari territoriali tra Mezzogiorno e Centro Nord a partire dal 2007. Si mostra che la doppia crisi (2008-09 e 2012-13) ha ampliato i differenziali di sviluppo...
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In this paper we study the relationship between the quality of contract enforcement and firms' participation in Global Value Chains. Using new data on Italian manufacturing firms' supply of customized inputs to other firms and variations in law enforcement in courts across Italy, we find that...
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