The geographic digital divide has a significant, though largely unexplored, dimension within a country. This paper proposes an index of digital development for the Italian NUTS2 regions (rDESI) based on the European Commission’s Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI). The rDESI monitors the...

The food sector has been the object of much competition concern in the past decade, having seen many European Commission initiatives investigating the food supply chain. This study examines the ownership structure of beverages manufacturers active in the EU28 in 2007-2019. Several large US-based...

The production and exploitation of statistical data for a large amount of high frequency time series must allow a timely use of data ensuring a minimum quality standard. This work provides a new outlier detection methodology (washer): efficient for timesaving elaboration and implementation...

This paper analyses the business cycle properties of 150 time series, including real and monetary variables, relevant to the regional economy. Following the methodology adopted by Altissimo, Marchetti and Oneto (2000), we propose new monthly coincident and leading composite indicators for the...