What happens when high-frequency and high spatial detailed characteristics of data encounter long publication delays in forecasting problems? This paper emphasises the predictive power of Google Trends (GT) data, only strongly assessed, but not in the investigations of high-frequency tourism...

The paper analyses the causal effect of capital subsidies on firms' efficiency and productivity by exploiting the conditions for a local random experiment created by Law 488/92 (henceforth L488), which has been an important policy instrument for reducing territorial disparities in Italy. The...