The Barcelona Declaration's objective of establishing a free trade area in the Mediterranean region by the year 2010 is felt as a menace by the Southern European with respect to the feasible openings to increasing imports' flows from non E.U. Mediterranean countries (MEDs). To see how much are...

This paper empirically highlights the important role of structural social capital in enhancing the propensity to innovate of firms. Specifically, it investigates, through a probit analysis, the causal effect of the set of relations owned by producers on their propensity to innovate. A case study...