La popolazione straniera residente in Italia è cresciuta notevolmente negli ultimi anni, manifestando anche una decisa tendenza all’insediamento stabile. La differente distribuzione territoriale delle collettività straniere è uno degli elementi che caratterizza le varie modalità di...

During 2011 General Population and Housing Census methodological innovations towards the planning of a register-based census were introduced. Such innovations allowed to reach a satisfactory cost-benefit balance but increased the survey complexity and the risk of errors.Istat focus on web...

The use of bivariate cointegrated vector autoregressive models and Baba-Engle-Kraft-Kroner models ( Engle et al. 1995), is proposed for the selection of a stock portfolio (Markowitz type portfolio) based on estimates of average returns on shares and the volatility of share prices. The model put...

The aim of the paper is to test the existence of a strong relationship between the acquisition of financial literacy and financial experience, gained with the daily use of different products and services. Data are drawn by the 2008 Bank of Italy Survey on Household Income and Wealth. The...

In this work we present space-time models with simultaneous effect in which the relations between phenomenon measured in different sites are not determined on the base of an a priori structure, but are estimated in the model’s estimation procedure. This approach avoids superimposition of a...

The paper is based on the idea that the organization of services by local authorities should take into account both the demographic features of the resident population and the spatial dimension of the territory involved. As regards the former, it seeks to identify homogeneous and spatially...

Least Orthogonal Distance Estimator (LODE) of Simultaneous Equation Models’ structural parameters is based on minimizing the orthogonal distance between Reduced Form (RF) and the Structural Form (SF) parameters. In this work we propose a new version – with respect to Pieraccini and Naccarato...

The aim of this paper is to present a consistent estimator of parameters in simultaneous equation model, based on characteristic roots and vectors of a matrix deriving from the so called overidentifying gonal Distance Estimator presented here is a more recent development of its original limited...