Working Papers
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N.43/2012Soviet power plus electrification: what is the long-run legacy of communism?
Two decades after the end of central planning, we investigate the extent to which the advantages bequeathed by planning in terms of high investment in physical infrastructure and human capital compensated... »
Wendy Carlin (University College London and CEPR) ; Mark Schaffer (Heriot-Watt University) ; Paul Seabright (Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR)
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N.42/2012The labour market and the distribution of income: an empirical analysis for Italy
This paper provides an empirical examination of the distribution of labour earnings in Italy. Using four waves of data from the Participation Labour Unemployment Survey, a database of information on the... »
Fabio Clementi (University of Macerata) ; Michele Giammatteo (Bank of Italy)
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N.41/2012Can emerging economies decouple from the US business cycle?
In this paper we focus on the decoupling hypothesis between emerging countries and United States, as the more influent economy for the business cycle movements of advanced countries. Despite the theoretical... »
Eleonora Cutrini (University of Macerata) ; Giorgio Galeazzi (University of Macerata)
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N.40/2012I distretti tradizionali di fronte alla globalizzazione: il caso dell’industria calzaturiera marchigiana
I distretti costituiscono uno degli assi portanti della struttura industriale italiana, ed hanno sostenuto la crescita dell’economia nazionale nell’ultimo trentennio del secolo scorso. Negli... »
Eleonora Cutrini (University of Macerata) ; Giacinto Micucci and Pasqualino Montanaro (Bank of Italy - Regional Economic Research Unit, Ancona Branch)
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N.39/2012Spatial fragmentation of industries by functions
We explore to what extent key functions in manufacturing are spatially clustered with, or dispersed from,each other within industries, and how these clustering or dispersion patterns have changed during... »
Franz-Josef Bade (University of Dortmund) ; Eckhardt Bode (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) ; Eleonora Cutrini (University of Macerata)
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N.38/2012Un’analisi critica dei lavori recenti del mainstream sugli effetti economici delle spese militari
L’obiettivo del nostro apporto è quello di fornire un’analisi critica degli apporti della letteratura sulle spese militari, a partire dalle analisi formulate da Benoit nel 1972, per poi distinguere... »
Eleonora Gentilucci (University of Macerata) ; Rémy Herrera (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
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N.37/2011Consumer evaluation of a typical Italian salami: an experimental auction approach
This paper reports results of an evaluation experiment designed to provide both hedonic scores and measurements of consumer willingness to pay (WTP), on the basis of visual inspection, tasting, and presentation... »
Gianluca Stefani (University of Florence) ; Alessio Cavicchi (University of Macerata)
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N.36/2011Giving Voice to Employees and Spreading Information within the Firm: the Manner Matters
Economists are paying increasing attention to “factors” in job satisfaction. Job satisfaction can affect productivity, effort, absenteeism, and quits. This paper analyzes data from the “Working... »
Enzo Valentini (University of Macerata)
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N.35/2011What drives economic specialization in Italian Regions?
It is well-known that Italy has two distinguishing characteristics closely intertwined with each other and unusual for an advanced country: a persisting specialization in traditional industries and deep... »
Eleonora Cutrini, Enzo Valentini (University of Macerata)
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N.34/2011Italian economic diplomacy at work: catching up the BRICs
The paper is a preliminary attempt to analyze the recent effort of the Italian diplomacy to develop a coherent trade policy toward the most important emerging markets. It describes why in recent years... »
Francesca Spigarelli (University of Macerata) ; Andrea Goldstein (OECD) ; Luigi Manzetti (Southern Methodist University)
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N.33/2011Italian FDI integration with Southeast Europe: country and firm-level evidence
Southeast European countries have experienced significant economic integration into the world economy since 2000, through international capital flows and especially foreign direct investment (FDI). The... »
Eleonora Cutrini, Francesca Spigarelli (University of Macerata)
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N.32/2011Sensitivity Analysis of Composite Indicators through Mixed Model Anova
The paper proposes a new approach for analysing the stability of Composite Indicators. Starting from the consideration that different subjective choices occur in their construction, the paper emphasizes... »
Cristina Davino, Rosaria Romano (University of Macerata)
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N.31/2011Consumers' attitude towards farmers' markets: an explorative analysis in Tuscany
Farmers Markets (FMs) around the world are often considered as one key response to the less sustainable conventional food production systems. Despite the economic crisis, international studies show that... »
Alessio Cavicchi (Università di Macerata) ; Benedetto Rocchi, Matteo Baldeschi (Università di Firenze)
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N.30/2010On the use of Structural Equation Models and PLS Path Modeling to build composite indicators
Nowadays there is a pre-eminent need to measure very complex phenomena like poverty, progress, well-being, etc. As is well known, the main feature of a composite indicator is that it summarizes complex... »
Laura Trinchera (University of Macerata) ; Giorgio Russolillo (University of Naples)
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N.29/2010The internationalization process of Italian fashion fi rms: the governance role of the founding team
This study aims at exploring the process of internationalization in the Italian fashion firms, focusing on strategy-structure fit and the governance role of the founding team in providing such a fit.... »
Ernesto Tavoletti (University of Macerata)
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N.28/2010Globalization and public administration: a complex relationship
The paper examines the relationship between globalization and public administration through economic theory principles and an example. Starting from the consideration of early concerns about globalization,... »
Elisabetta Croci Angelini (University of Macerata)
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N.27/2010Matching higher education and labour market in the knowledge economy: the much needed reform of university governance in Italy
In the knowledge economy and current public finance constraints, matching higher education and labour market is not one of the main issues in higher education policy sustainability: it is “the issue”.... »
Ernesto Tavoletti (University of Macerata)
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N.26/2010The economic impact of the Green Certificate market through the Macro Multiplier approach
In the last decade, as many other European countries, the Italian Government adopted several reforms in order to increase the use of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). The liberalization of the electricity... »
Maurizio Ciaschini, Rosita Pretaroli, Francesca Severini, Claudio Socci (University of Macerata, Politechnical University of Marche)
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N.25/2010Environmental tax reform and double dividend evidence
The increasing attention to environmental damage and the problem of climate changes have led many studies to concentrate on environmental taxation as an incentive-based instrument of environmental policy.... »
Maurizio Ciaschini, Rosita Pretaroli, Francesca Severini, Claudio Socci (University of Macerata, Politechnical University of Marche)
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N.24/2010Macerata Lectures on European Economic Policy. Poverty and the EU: the New Decade
The EU is currently drawing up its agenda EU2020 for the next decade. In doing so, account must be taken of the successes and limitations of the Lisbon Agenda 2000-2009, notably the failure to achieve... »
Anthony Barnes Atkinson (Nuffield College, Oxford and the London School of Economics)