This paper talks about multi-pillar pension system in Italy, focusing most on the impact of Pension Funds established by trade unions and employers associations. Minor sensitivity to demographic shocks is what makes funding appealing in respect of public <em>pay-as-you-go</em> scheme. Benefit comes from...

The aim of this paper is to better define the meaning of industrial representation, fixing its distinctive context. To do so reference will be made to a scheme called ‘representation axis’ which connects the private concept to the political one. The analysis proceeds to answer such typical...

We study political distortions that emerge in situations where agents' political power is disproportionate with respect to their economic power. We use the Shapley value to evaluate both the economic and the political power. We show that usual weighted majority voting cannot prevent political...

The paper aims to the laying out of conceptual and empirical bases for analyzing the impact of the intangible elements have on local performance. These include the cultural and natural heritage and human capital both in the process of territorial growth – regional and provincial – and in the...

The health care reform it is no longer to be postponed due to the high costs and inefficiencies, as well as differences in the distribution of services, and sharpen existing disparities in the quality of care between regions, according to the health needs of the growing aging population and the...

There is still an unmet need for intensified research into health economic evaluation models of orphan drugs. In the first part of the paper some main issues related to the limits of cost-effectiveness in rare diseases are developed. In order to investigate the theoretical aspect in practice, a...

We analyse the determinants of unemployment persistence in four OECD countries by estimating a structural Bayesian VAR with an informative prior based on an insiders/outsiders model. We explicitly insert unemployment benefits and labour taxes so that our identification is not affected by the...

The comparison between Economics and Business Management allows the clarification of some of their characteristics and limits as regards method, language, and objectives. Secondly, it allows the verification of the reciprocal contribution relating to research. For such a comparison, the object...

The Euro-Med agreements draw a scheme where free trade flows from each Partner towards the EU and vice-versa in a hub and spoke fashion. The liberalization takes place in two subsequent phases, to promote some industrial development of the Mediterranean partners before full liberalization of...

This paper focus on the relationship between the right's aims of providing an incentive for creative activities, and the overall efficiency. It can in fact be shown that, even if the commodification of intellectual works by means of copyright does provide some incentive for creative activities,...