This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an...

The case study of United States shows that global economic processes significantly influence the location of manufacturing. Analysis of multidimensional data covering 1860-2010 shows several stylized facts. Intensity of U.S. involvement in global economy by set of indicators is characterized by...

This paper presents the methodological approach used to analyse and assess an active labour market policy called Dote Unica del Lavoro (DUL) implemented by the Lombardy Region with reference to the period October 2013-June 2014 and addressed to 25 thousand beneficiaries. The aim of the project...

A ubiquitous feature of life in peripheral communities is that school leavers have to move away to attend further and higher education. From the point of view of an individual student and his family significant amounts have to be spent to pay for term time costs. These are at least partially...