Carmine Pappalardo

Long run and short run dynamics in italian manufacturing labour productivity

Tatiana Cesaroni, Carmine Pappalardo

This paper examines structural changes in the Italian manufacturing sector, focusing on labour productivity in recent decades. To this end it distinguishes between trend and cyclical movements in the...

Long Run and Short Run Dynamics in Italian Manufacturing Labour Productivity

Cesaroni, Tatiana, Pappalardo, Carmine

This paper examines structural changes in the Italian manufacturing sector, focusing labour productivity in recent decades. To this end it distinguishes between trend movements in the data using a...

Regolazione del mercato del lavoro e crescita dimensionale delle imprese: Una verifica sull'effetto soglia dei 15 dipendenti.

Sergio De Nardis, Massimo Mancini, Carmine Pappalardo

This paper analyzes the effect of labour market regulation on firm’s behaviour in Italy. In particular, it focuses on the strictness of employment protection legislation in order to evaluate the...

Vector-Autoregression Approach to Forecast Italian Imports

Carmine Pappalardo, Gianfranco Piras

Imports represent a relevant component of total economic resources. For the Italian case, they mainly consist of raw materials and intermediate goods. In this paper, we evaluate several econometric...

The cross-country effects of EU holidays on domestic GDP's

Giancarlo Bruno, Claudio Lupi, Carmine Pappalardo, Gianfranco Piras

The number and the distribution of non-working days during the year has recently entered the policy debate related to the slow pace of the European economy.The fact that the number of non-working...

The Euro adoption’s impact on extensive and intensive margins of trade: the Italian case

Sergio De Nardis, Carmine Pappalardo, Claudio Vicarelli

The recent theoretical literature has focused on the importance of extensive and intensive margins of trade in the case of the Euro adoption. But few works have investigated the effects of the euro...

Combination of Forecast Methods Using Encompassing Tests. An Algorithm-Based Procedure

Costantini, Mauro, Pappalardo, Carmine

This paper proposes a strategy to increase the efficiency of forecast combining methods. Given the availability of a wide range of forecasting models for the same variable of interest, our goal is to...

A homogeneous reconstruction of regional data: household accounts and disposable income, 1970-1995

Pierpaolo Berrettoni, Roberto Delogu, Carmine Pappalardo, Paolo Piselli

The paper reconstructs the items of the regional accounts, disposable income and wealth of the household sector for the North-West, North-East, Centre, and South and Islands for the years 1970-1995....

Export, Productivity and Product Switching: The Case of Italian Manufacturing Firms

Sergio De Nardis, Carmine Pappalardo

During the first half of the current decade, with rising competitive pressures, Italian manufacturing firms were forced to undertake a process of restructuring which had positive repercussions on...

(String Matching Algorithms,An Applicatione ti ISAE and ISTAT Firms's Registers)

Emma De Angelis, Carmine Pappalardo

The aim of the paper is to develop algorithms for the matching of strings from two different registers of Italian enterprises. This makes effective the possibility of integrating the firm-level...