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We analyze households’ economic freedom to determine their standard of living, characterized by their capacity to spend on housing, utilities, food, and transport: economic poverty is a lack of freedom due to budgetary constraints. We propose three new measures. The first is the classical...
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The paper show how changes in the state of credit may cause instability in the output and in the employment levels. The model revised Delli Gatti and Gallegati's version of the contribution by Greenwald and Stiglitz (1993) in a contest characterized by imperfect competition in the goods market...
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This is a short survey on consumption theory. Consumption is important to both fluctuation and growth. In addition, consumption introduces some important issues involving financial markets and portfolio decisions. We will describe consumption decisions in a dynamic context. Uncertainty about...
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We investigate the occurrence of risk sharing among Italian regions with respect to both long run and short run income fluctuations by means of Vector Equilibrium Correction Models (VEqCMs) which allow to test all implications of the theory without preliminary filtering or transformations of...
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Italian Abstract: L'ampliamento del commercio al dettaglio a livello globale, favorito dalla diffusione delle transazioni via Internet (e-commerce), ha indotto il legislatore europeo a rafforzare i presidi di sicurezza nelle operazioni di pagamento online. Questo lavoro si pone l'obiettivo di...
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Italian Abstract: I conti patrimoniali sono parte del sistema di contabilità nazionale e forniscono un quadro completo della ricchezza di un paese e della sua evoluzione temporale. Nel lavoro vengono presentati i conti patrimoniali dell'Italia costruiti utilizzando i dati dei conti finanziari...
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Italian Abstract: Il lavoro analizza l'evoluzione della ricchezza delle famiglie in una prospettiva di lungo periodo, confrontando i cambiamenti del portafoglio finanziario e delle attività non finanziarie in Italia con le dinamiche di altre economie avanzate. In Italia la ricchezza reale è...
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Italian Abstract: Il lavoro propone una ricostruzione dei dati delle indagini Istat che consente di analizzare l’effetto meccanico dell’invecchiamento della popolazione sui consumi delle famiglie. L’invecchiamento avrebbe mitigato l’aumento della propensione alla spesa registrato nel...
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Despite the fact that in 2011 Italy will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its political unification, geographical disparities stand out as a prominent characteristic of the country. The paper estimates the trend of the cost-of-living differentials across regions in the half-century after the...
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The calculation of inflation rates for specific groups in Italy, according to family typology and profession, on various time horizons between 1996 and 2004, does not find significant differences. This result, surprising in particular for the first two years of the euro circulation, when a vivid...
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