• Il posizionamento dell’Acquedotto lucano spa: Una cluster analysis 

      Ciani, Angelo (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2014-04-01)
      Research aims to analyze the operating performance of companies in the water services sector in the various Italian regions, to locate the position, in terms of overall profitability, of the Acquedotto Lucano Spa, a public ...
    • Issues in Environmental Economics: Sustainability and Eco-efficiency 

      Papaleo, Maria Carmela (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015-05-29)
      This thesis deals empirically with various research questions in environmental economics. In particular the issues of sustainability and eco-efficiency are approached on three different data-sets. The first paper deals ...
    • The Italian banking industry: efficiency, market power, role in the local economies 

      Pellecchia, Alfonso (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2012-03-13)
      In the last twenty years the banking sector of many countries has undergone a period of consolidation and restructuring. This has raised concerns about the welfare implications of larger credit institutions, given that ...
    • Knowledge, Innovation and Performance in SMEs: a new Methodology 

      Farace, Salvatore (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015-05-14)
      The role of innovation in SMEs is strategic in shaping the ability of the firm to compete; innovation depends on on the firms’ ability to identify, assimilate and exploit knowledge from all around. Generally, an important ...
    • Le sofferenze nel mercato del credito italiano: effetti strutturali e impatto sulle economie locali 

      Rachele, Anna Ambrosio (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2012-07-27)
      La tesi mira non solo ad analizzare le dinamiche evolutive delle sofferenze bancarie, mediante l’analisi di fattori sia interni che esterni alla banca in grado di condizionarne l’andamento, ma anche a correlare successivamente ...
    • Macroeconomic implications of fiscal policy 

      Melina, Giovanni (Università degli Studi di Salerno, 2010-05-06)
      This thesis investigates the macroeconomics e ects of scal policy from a theoretical and empirical perspective. The rst part of the thesis surveys recent theoretical and empirical studies in the related literature. ...
    • Risk, regulation and performance in banking: theory and estimates for italian banks 

      Barra, Cristian (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2012-10-17)
      “The financial system ... may be simultaneously growth-induced and growth-inducing, but what really matter are the character of its services and the efficiency with which it provides them (Cameron et al. (1967), p. 2)”. In ...
    • La salute e le sue determinanti economiche e sociali 

      Coppola, Margherita (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015-09-29)
      In this work some aspects of health have been examined. After a short description of the evolution of the concept of health and disease, analysis focused on “Health and Welfare”, “Health and Individual choices” and “Health ...
    • Il sistema aeroportuale italiano: analisi dell’efficienza 

      Keller, Silvia (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015-05-14)
      L’analisi intende offrire un contributo al dibattito sulle strategie di sviluppo della rete aeroportuale italiana valutando l’efficienza degli aeroporti inclusi nel Piano Nazionale degli Aeroporti nel periodo di osservazione ...
    • Il sistema giudiziario italiano: un’analisi di efficienza 

      Ciliberti, Anna (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015-05-29)
      The problem of the inefficiency of the judicial system is a very present in Italy. In Italy the average duration of a process is significantly higher than that of the Ocse countries. The excessive length of judgments has ...
    • Sviluppi recenti nell’analisi empirica della politica fiscale 

      Zito, Maria (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2012-01-20)
      Questo lavoro si propone un duplice scopo. La prima parte è tesa ad evidenziare come l’uso di metodologie alternative all’identificazione di Cholesky sono in grado di arginare i problemi che si incontrano nell’applicazione ...
    • Tax wedge, employment and productivity: micro and macro evidence 

      Festa, Andrea (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2011-11-30)
      In this paper I investigate the effect of the tax wedge on productivity and employment. The first chapter presents an overview of existing literature, both at micro and macro level. The second chapter analyzes the effect ...
    • The youth employment rate and the role of minimum wage, labor market policies and institutions: theory and estimates 

      Moscariello, Valentino (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015-05-11)
      Growth and labour market forecast in OECD countries remains bleak for 2013, especially for youth. The modest employment recovery in 2011 did not continue in 2012: youth unemployment rates stagnated at 15.7% in 2014 (OECD: ...
    • Three Essays on Policy Evaluation 

      Ingino, Francesco (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2016-05-06)
      Over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of literature on program evaluation. Many researches in economics look at the causal effect of exposure of units to programs on some outcomes through econometric ...
    • Three essays on state budget rules and procedures 

      Spennati, Pietro (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2014-02)
      In Common pool models fiscal outcomes are determined by the decision-making rule that is used to aggregate conflicting interests into a single budget. The rules according through which the budget is prepared, approved and ...
    • Un'analisi dell'incompletezza contrattuale in presenza di mercati concorrenziali 

      Sicoli, Marta (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2012-01-16)
      La tesi analizza gli e¤etti dell incompletezza contrattuale sull e¢ cienza di una relazione d agenzia caratterizzata da selezione avversa ed azzardo morale quando l agente opera in un mercato (imperfettamente) ...