We develop a model explaining how criminal organizations strategically use pre-electoral
violence as a way of influencing electoral results and politicians' behaviour. We then …

The purpose of the article is to present the statistical reconstruction of a series of per capita
output in central–northern Italy between 1300 and 1913. The various phases of both the …

This paper investigates very long-run preindustrial economic development. New annual
GDP per capita data for six European countries over the last seven hundred years paint a …

We combine matched employer–employee data with firms' financial records to study a 2001
Italian reform that lifted constraints on the employment of temporary contract workers while …

Regional disparities within the European Union have always been perceived as an
impediment to monetary integration. Discussions on a joint currency were linked to …

This article sets the background for the contributions collected in this issue, comments on the
statistical data and discusses the chronology of Italy's economic history in a long-term …

Although the literature about the objective socio-economic characteristics of the Italian North-
South divide is wide and exhaustive, the question of how it is perceived is much less …

information on wages has never been exploited in the longlasting debate on north-south
disparities in italy in the aftermath of the national Unification. the present article is based on …

This paper carries out a long-run reconstruction of a discontinuous time series of net fiscal
flows for Italian regions and macro-regions from 1951 to 2010. This evidence is the basis to …

Since the mid-1990s interregional migration flows in Italy have dramatically increased,
especially from the South to the North. These flows are characterized by a strong component …