Developing countries have a considerable stake in supporting a comprehensive new round of multilateral trade negotiations within the World Trade Organization (WTO) in order to achieve further trade liberalization and benefit from intersectorial trade-off.For their constructuve particiaption in...

In this paper, we assess the determinants of information and communication technology (ICT) investment at the macro-level, for a panel of 10 advanced countries, in the period 1992-2005. We investigate the idea that, since ICTs are general purpose technologies, the decision to invest in these...

In this paper we investigate the determinants of ICT investment at the macro level for a panel of ten countries over the period 1992-2005. We argue that, since ICT is a General Purpose Technology, its diffusion can be understood only considering the interaction with institutional and structural...

Negli anni successivi al completamento del mercato unico europeo il modello di crescita del Mezzogiorno italiano ha sperimentato una significativa trasformazione. Le regioni meridionali hanno subito in generale un peggioramento dei loro fondamentali economici, soprattutto per quanto riguarda la...