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...
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...
Costantini, Mauro, Pappalardo, Carmine
This paper proposes a strategy to increase the efficiency of forecast combination. Given the availability of a wide range of forecasts for the same variable of interest, our goal is to apply...
(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...