We explore the economic feasibility of a payment scheme for the ecosystem services provided by mountain pastures in the Italian Alps and Apennines. Traditional mountain livestock farms are the main guardians of these ecosystems that they contribute to preserve by grazing and mowing sustainably....

This paper elaborates a Spatial Autoregressive and Spatial Error Model (SAR-SE Model) to investigate the Italian house price dynamics. House prices in real terms have been modelled for the period 1995-2008 in all the 103 Italian provinces along with affordability ratio, persistency term, some...