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Violet Paget (Florence, Italy) to Marie Belloc Lowndes (place unknown)
No full textA letter of recommendation for Violet Garrad, requesting that Marie Belloc Lowndes get her a job as an illustrator
Fondamenti di economia internazionale
No full textMolte discipline economiche «specialistiche» sono nate e si sono sviluppate in tempi relativamente recenti dal nucleo della teoria economica generale. Una trattazione specifica delle transazioni economiche internazionali è invece tradizione consolidata nella letteratura economica. Tale peculiarità dell’economia internazionale, la cui importanza è in continua crescita data l’ampia apertura verso l’estero dei singoli sistemi economici nazionali, fa sì che in essa siano largamente applicati gli strumenti di analisi della microeconomia e della macroeconomia. Partendo da questo contesto composito, Giancarlo Gandolfo e Marianna Belloc riescono nell’arduo compito di offrire un quadro sistematico di singolare chiarezza espositiva dei temi cardine dell’economia internazionale, tenendo sempre ben presenti le necessità didattiche scaturite dalla riforma universitaria. Fondamenti di economia internazionale è il primo manuale completo ed esauriente in grado di soddisfare le esigenze degli studenti e dei docenti impegnati con i nuovi moduli di insegnamento. Proprio per fornire una soluzione specifica alle diverse necessità dei docenti, infatti, gli autori hanno segnalato di volta in volta i paragrafi o i capitoli che possono essere omessi senza che ciò incida minimamente sulla autosufficienza della trattazione. In questo modo ogni docente potrà adattare il manuale alle proprie esigenze
Online Florentine Catasto of 1457
No full textThe “Florentine Catasto of 1457” was transcribed by Marianna Belloc (Sapienza Università di Roma), Francesco Drago (Università di Catania), Mattia Fochesato (Università Bocconi), and Roberto Galbiati (CNRS-SciencesPo). The original documents can be accessed at “Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Viale della Giovine Italia 6, 50122 Firenze, IT” and are included in the archival fund “Catasto del 1457 - Portate dei Cittadini”, Volumes 785-832. Information on Cosimo de Medici and his family (that is missing in the original documents) was taken from de Roover, R. (1963: p.26), “The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank 1397-1494”, Cambridge (Mass): Harvard University Press
Innovation in State-owned Enterprises: Reconsidering the Conventional Wisdom
Full text linkA very well established economic literature maintains that State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are inefficient comparatively to privately-owned ones (POEs). In this paper we argue that SOEs' inefficiency is not due to the State ownership per se, rather it is caused by some conditions other than ownership which SOEs often, but not necessarily, relate to. In particular, we focus on dynamic efficiency - specifically, the production of technological innovation - of SOEs in manufacturing industries, where SOEs should contend with POEs in a competitive environment. We suggest that targeted measures aimed at increasing managers' commitment to long-term investment strategies and at reducing corruption and political interference, though being complex and difficult to implement, can be much more (positively) incisive on long-run technical progress than the simple privatization of companies. This leaves room for exploration and implementation of policies that might reconcile State ownership and market competition in industrial sectors
Corporate governance and innovation : a survey
No full textThe traditional economics of innovation, inspired by Schumpeter and more recentadvances on his work, seem unable to explain why firms with similar external conditions may showgreatly different performance in innovation. Contrastingly, the literature on corporate governanceprovides some useful insights for understanding corporate innovation activity, to the extent thatsuch literature examines the economic effects of different modes of coordination between firmmembers. The process through which individuals integrate their human and physical resourceswithin the firm is central to the dynamics of corporate innovation. This paper provides the firstsurvey of the literature on this issue. We start by discussing how various theoretical approachesto the analysis of the firm deal with technological innovation. We then describe three mainchannels – corporate ownership, corporate finance and labour – through which a system of corporategovernance shapes a firm’s innovation activity. Finally, we examine the relationship betweencountry-level institutional settings, national patterns of corporate governance and the aggregateinnovation activity of corporations. We conclude by suggesting that future research should focusmore deeply on the interrelation between the various dimensions of corporate governance and ontheir joint effect on firm innovation
Compendium de photograph
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Photographie
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International Economic Assistance and Migration: The Case of Sub-Saharan Countries
No full textDevelopment aid is commonly advocated as one of the most effective instruments to reduce international migration. Nevertheless, empirical evidence shows that push factors do not automatically result in massive migrations and that aid policies systematically fail to meet their stated objectives. Recently, several contributions have argued that an increase in sending countries’ wealth may lead to a rise in migration, rather than to a reduction, because it enables people to assume the costs and risks of migrating. However, despite the growing number of studies on this phenomenon, the role played by Official Development Assistance (ODA) has not received attention yet. This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on this specific issue. In particular, we investigate the relation between ODA and international migration rates of sub‐Saharan countries. We argue that ODA may have a positive effect on migration decisions for two reasons. First, ODA improves workers’ ability to cover the costs of migration, by providing new job opportunities and in turn increasing incomes in the recipient country. Second, ODA, which is often associated with development programs in education, communication services, and business opportunities, may also stimulate mobility aspirations of potential migrants. We develop an econometric analysis in order to investigate this hypothesis. Specifically, we perform a three‐stage least square estimation on a sample of 48 sub‐Saharan countries. We build a two‐equation model, so as to allow for endogeneity of ODA, and find that ODA has a positive and statistically significant effect on migration outflows. Thus, as our main contribution, we argue that development aids are not substitute for migration and that the traditional aid policies (such as those of the European Union), aimed at curbing migration by providing international financial aids, might need to be reconsidered
Scelte di uscita dalla famiglia e disuguaglianze nelle opportunità
No full textIn Italy young people leave their parental household later than in the other European countries. The aim of this paper is to identify the main determinants of leaving home decisions, and to investigate how leaving home opportunities differ among individuals, considering the professional status of sons and breadwinners. In order to pursue this goal, we use data from the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) by the Bank of Italy. The empirical study is performed by cross-section probit and panel probit estimation and factor analysis. Our findings unveil the crucial role played by the economic resources available to the individual and, in particular, by income. As a consequence, the labour market segmentation in terms of professional status, which strongly influences income distribution in Italy, also affects leaving home opportunities
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