This paper examines regional inflation divergence within the European EMU aiming at characterizing the properties of inflation differentials. The empirical evidence suggests that a process of price level convergence in the EMU is well on its way.

Three industrial organization (IO) models suggested by Dornbusch (1987) are here adapted to study the labor-cost effects on relative prices of tradable goods between the regions of a monetary union. The assumption of imperfect and segmented goods and labor markets makes the analysis best suited...

The paper analyses Islamic finance from the central bank and supervisory authority�s perspective, focusing on the European and Italian context. It depicts a rapidly expanding sector, with recent annual growth rates of between 10 and 15 percent and a geographical presence that now reaches...

Nella prima parte di questo lavoro vengono analizzate alcune delle principali dottrine economiche che hanno contribuito a definire il fenomeno competitivo. Si è cercato di ricostruire storicamente la definizione di competitività attraverso i contributi più rilevanti del pensiero economico...

Knowledge of the characteristics of the short-term evolution of consumer prices for each country and for their average is important for better monitoring and forecasting of inflation in the euro area. In this paper we seek to verify to what extent the short-term variability of the HICPs can be...

Italian Abstract:A quattro anni dalla pubblicazione del primo rapporto sulla sostenibilità urbana in Italia Per un’Italia Sostenibile: L’SDSN Italia SDGs City Index 2018 e a due anni dal Report di aggiornamento, la presente relazione espone i dati aggiornati al 2022 relativi ai comuni...

English Abstract: In this work, we propose a new approach to constructing interval-based composite indicators based on the triplex representation. So, we measure the principal value of the indicator and simultaneously the value's uncertainty due to the different assumptions as different...