In the healthcare sector, Selection (S), Moral Hazard (MH) and Supply Induced Demand (SID) are three very important phenomena affecting patients' behavior. Despite there exists a vast theoretical and empirical literature on these phenomena, so far, no contribution has been able to approach them...

In this paper we provide fresh evidence on TFP performance in the Italian economy since 1995, taking into account the changing composition of primary inputs across different capital goods and employment skills, as well as technical progress embodied in different vintages of the productive...

Italian Abstract: Questo lavoro presenta una metodologia per ricostruire la spesa energetica delle imprese manifatturiere italiane con almeno 20 addetti per il periodo 2003-2011. Si utilizzano una pluralità di fonti per imputare i consumi fisici di energia a livello di impresa nell'archivio...

Italian Abstract: La recente caduta dei corsi petroliferi ridurrà i costi energetici del nostro paese. Per la progressiva marginalizzazione del petrolio, sia come fonte energetica sia come benchmark di prezzo, famiglie e imprese si avvantaggeranno di questa riduzione sostanzialmente attraverso...

The worldwide upswing in energy prices recorded in the last decade has placed decarbonization strategies, and their potentially negative consequences for firms' costs and competitiveness, at the centre of the European policy debate. We evaluate the relevance of energy policies for...

This work analyses the effects of the slowdown that has hit Germany since 2018 on the Italian economy using data from Banca d’Italia’s Survey of Inflation and Growth Expectations. First, we briefly argue that these two economies are highly interconnected and describe the slowdown that has...