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Are eco-labels good for the local economy?
No full textWe evaluate whether the adoption of a well‐known transition management instrument in the tourism industry can support simultaneously economic growth as well as sustainability. We create a detailed dataset at the municipality level and use a recently developed policy evaluation technique to investigate the causal impact of the Blue Flag programme on the local economies. Estimates show that this eco‐label is not effective at enhancing the local economy; findings are homogeneous across destinations. This empirical result is in line with the recent theoretical literature arguing that a single policy does not suffice for transiting towards a sustainable economy
Endogenous amenities, tourists’ happiness and competitiveness
No full textA key strategy for supporting destination competitiveness is to enhance endogenous amenities and tourists are the best candidate to evaluate them at the destination. In the analysis, we use a comprehensive dataset on foreign travellers to investigate their happiness at Italian destinations between 2005-2014. Using a theory-dependent approach to model happiness at the destination with respect to endogenous and exogenous amenities, personal characteristics and trip features, we show a great diversity in the mix of amenities affecting tourist happiness. However, some clear spatial patterns emerge. Our findings call for place-based policies targeted to the specific needs of each area
Public subsidies, TFP and efficiency: A tale of complex relationships
No full textThis paper evaluates the impact of subsidies on the different components of TFP for granted firms’ long-term growth. The impact of capital subsidies is captured by a quasi–experimental method (Multiple RDD), exploiting the conditions for a local random experiment created by an Italian industrial policy. Results show that capital subsidies negatively affect TFP growth in the short term, and signals of positive effects appear only after 3–4 years. This positive medium-long term impact comes especially through technological change and not through scale impact change, as may have been expected
Electoral earthquake: local shocks and authoritarian voting
No full textA growing literature has highlighted the role of economic grievances, global transformations, cultural cleavages and long-term trends of isolation and decline in engendering political discontent. However, this literature is silent on the potential role of unanticipated local shocks in fuelling support for authoritarian parties. We fill this gap by using comprehensive data at a fine spatial scale and a comparative natural experiment approach. Our study documents that the occurrence of two destructive earthquakes in Italy resulted in sharply diverging electoral outcomes: while the 2012 Emilia quake did not alter voting behaviour, the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake paved the way for an impressive and persistent authoritarian backlash in the most affected areas. Such heterogeneous patterns originate from a stark contrast in post-disaster reconstruction processes and shifts in institutional trust. These findings suggest that valence issues generated from local shocks can turn “places that don’t recover” into authoritarian hotbeds
A propos de l'ouvrage "Maghreb Médiéval" - L'apogée de la civilisation islamique dans l'occident arabe, F. Gabriel, G. Chiauzzi, C. Sarnelli Cerqua
No full textCalley Bernard. A propos de l'ouvrage "Maghreb Médiéval" - L'apogée de la civilisation islamique dans l'occident arabe, F. Gabriel, G. Chiauzzi, C. Sarnelli Cerqua . In: Horizons Maghrébins - Le droit à la mémoire, N°18-19, 1992. Les idéaux de la Révolution Française chez les Maghrébins. pp. 246-250
Do subsidies to private capital boost firms' growth? A multiple regression discontinuity design approach
No full textThere is still little consensus among economists on the effectiveness of business support policies. The evaluation of such policies requires a reliable identification procedure that is hardly achieved in empirical studies. We analyse the impact of a policy instrument - Law 488/92 (L488), the main Italian regional policy - that allocates subsidies to private firms by a multiple ranking system. Thanks to the peculiar L488 selection process that creates the conditions for a local random experiment, we are able to assess the effectiveness of these types of incentives for a relevant subgroup of firms. We propose a nonparametric multiple rankings regression discontinuity design that exploits the sharp discontinuities in the L488 rankings and extends the regression discontinuity design (RDD) approach to a context where the treatment is assigned by multiple rankings with different cut-off points. We find that the impact of the subsidies on employment, investment, and turnover is positive and statistically significant, while the effect on productivity is mostly negligible. The new subsidised capital is additional but non-complementary with the owner-financed investment. The results are robust to different specifications and not due to intertemporal substitution. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Aḥmad ‘Izzat ‘Abd al-Karīm (I909-1980). Storico arabo contemporaneo
No full textEsamina la produzione di uno dei maggiori storici egiziani contemporanei, fondatore degli storici dell'Università di 'Ayn Shams del Cairo e riporta alcuni dei suoi pensieri su grandi pensatori egiziani dell'epoca di Muhammad 'Ali, come al-Giabarti e Rifa'a Rafi' at-Tahtaw
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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