This paper estimates the pass-through and speed of adjustment of Italian regional interest rates to changes in the money market rate for the period 1998Q1-2009Q4. Our main findings suggest that the markup for the lending rates that banks charge are generally higher in the South than in the...

The fight against unemployment has become one of the most important challenges that advanced European countries have faced in the last forty years. Economic literature suggests that the changes in labour market institutions - through the implementation of a set of flexibility measures -...

The current and future performance of regional health systems is responsible for increasing health costs and it depends on a wide range of contextual factors. Studies on regional health productive performance and on different health systems are scarce. This paper focuses on the efficiency of...