During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, much emphasis was placed on mortality indicators such as case-fatality rate and crude mortality rates to offer a preliminary assessment of the resilience between healthcare systems. The paper aims to contribute to the debate on the resilience of...

Part I - Policies, Governance and Strategies -- Chapter 1. COMMUNICATION STRATEGY IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS DURING COVID-19 CRISIS: INSIGHTS FROM THE ITALIAN CONTEXT -- Chapter 2. Rethinking healthcare organizations in the era of Covid-19: Lessons from the pandemic -- Chapter 3. ITALIAN HEALTH...

Purpose The build-up of large-scale COVID-19 testing required an unprecedented effort of coordination within decentralized healthcare systems around the world. The aim of the study was to elucidate the challenges of vertical policy coordination between non-political actors at the national and...

Summary This paper studies the relationship between firm growth and external factors. Externalities from related economic, public research and higher educational activities are traced back to specific locations in space. The spatial characteristics of their impact are examined within a...

This paper develops a method to measure difficulties in market access over a large set of industries and countries (both developing and developed), during the period 1980-2006. We use a micro-founded heterogeneous-consumers model to estimate the impact of national borders on global and regional...