[eng] The econometric model, titted between 1959 and 1979, explains the annual fluctuation rate of the working week in an economic branch by the production growth rate and the fixed capital formation which are observed in. The positive relationship obtained between investment spending and...

[eng] The difficulty of analyzing productive fixed capital evolution is linked to the questions raised by the estimation of capital equipment scrapping. An a result of a scarcity of data, it is more often considered as proportional.. In this paper, we present empirical results concerning the...

[eng] How can the notion of an information economy characterize the growth pattern of contemporary economies ? This work examines the market dynamics caused by the accumulation of knowledge and the diffusion of information and communication technologies. The propositions illustrate the causal...

[eng] C. Antonelli - Costs and productivity in the textile firms,as a function of their size. The purpose of this note is to analyse total cost and productivity by size of firm in the Italian cotton and wool industry in the second half of the seventies. The analysis is broken down into the...

[eng] A dynamic path-dependent structuralism has been developed in Italian industrial economics building on the analysis of the role of the systemic and non-ergodic nature of economic change and hence of historic time in the evolution of the organization of firms and industries, the characters...