We embed the Uzawa-Lucas human capital accumulation technology into the Mankiw-Romer-Weil exogenous growth model. The paper is divided into two parts. In the first part we assume that the rate of technological progress is exogenous and deterministic and study the local dynamics of the model...

In this paper we examine the return of public investment in the EU regions. We consider different forms of infrastructure capital by examining the relationship between a set of infrastructure indicators and economic performance at the NUTS2 level with an empirical model derived from the...

The paper analyses the demand of remittance services within a framework that considers a wider range of migrants’ financial needs and how this demand evolves along the life cycle and in relation to the immigration project. It also studies the key issues of the regulation both at international...

Il modello cooperativo, rivisitato nella logica di questo lavoro, è ancora oggi un importante presidio per la gestione dell'attività bancaria; ci?? in quanto garantisce condizioni stabili di valorizzazione di tipologie economico - territoriali e d'impresa altrimenti esposte a rischi esterni di...

In the first part of this paper we present an overview of e-commerce and Internet characteristics. We explain why data mining plays a central role among the digital marketing technique: it is the tool to achieve customer knowledge, the key of success in the wide but highly competitive world of...

Our main objective with this paper is to propose a scoreboard useful to assess clusters’ competitiveness in a knowledge-based economy. Our scoreboard is grounded on the concept of ecology of value. This concept highlights that the competitiveness of a network of small and medium enterprises...

When survey-based, self-reported measures of satisfaction are used as dependent variables in a regression framework, the estimates may be biased and inconsistent. We adopt the measurement error perspective introduced by Bertrand and Mullainathan [2001], and propose an individual fixed-effects...

La psicometria è quella branca della psicologia che si occupa di tradurre in termini numerici le caratteristiche psicologiche della persona o dei suoi comportamenti. Questo approccio ha portato a sviluppare strumenti di misura con l'obiettivo di rendere condivisibili le entità di...