Search results for "ECs"

Discretionary fiscal policy over the cycle: new evidence based on the ESCB Disaggregated Approach

2009

This paper explores how discretionary fiscal policies on the revenue side of the government budget have reacted to economic fluctuations in European Union countries. For this purpose, it uses data on legislated revenue changes and structural indicators provided twice per year by National Central Banks of European Union countries in the ESCB framework for analysing fiscal policy. The analysis is based on the estimation of fiscal policy rules linking these measures of legislated fiscal policy changes to the output gap and other control variables. Then, baseline results are compared with regression estimates where variations of cyclically-adjusted indicators are used as proxy for discretionary…

Spatio-temporal analysis of the Covid-19 spread in Italy by Bayesian hierarchical models

2021

In this paper, we investigate the spatio-temporal spread pattern of the virus Covid-19 in Italy, during the first wave of infections, from February to October 2020. We provide a disease mapping of the virus infections, by using the Besag-Yorke-Molliè model and its spatio-temporal extensions. Our results confirm the effectiveness of the lockdown action, and show that, during the first wave, the virus spread by an inhomogeneous spatial trend and each province was characterised by a specific temporal trend, independent of the temporal evolution of the observed cases in the other provinces

Divari territoriali nelle diseguaglianze di genere in Italia

2009

A family of distances for preference–approvals

2022

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La governance dei distretti turistici in ottica di Destination Management

2014

Politica fiscale, distribuzione del reddito e povertà.

2015

Le strategie di diversificazione ispirate dall’ecosistema imprenditoriale di appartenenza delle imprese familiari

2019

ll capitolo indaga il ruolo che l’ecosistema imprenditoriale di appartenenza delle imprese familiari può avere nell’identificazione delle opportunità connesse alla realizzazione delle strategie di diversificazione. Ciò al fine di pervenireall’individuazione di eventuali comportamenti specificidi tali imprese nel campo considerato. In particolare, alla luce dei driver specifici sottesi alle decisioni strategiche delle imprese familiari e del ruolo svolto dal contesto nel quale hanno origine le opportunità imprenditoriali nel supportare od ostacolare la propria identificazione, l’autrice si occupa di studiare gli specifici processi di identificazione – sia attraverso la scoperta accidentale s…

Is Participation in Tourism Market an Opportunity for Everyone? Some Evidence from Italy

2014

Exploring the main determinants of tourism participation at national and international level, the paper investigates if there are differences in tourism consumption behavior among Italian families which reflect disparities in their standard of living. To achieve this a Heckman model has been used on a huge sample of Italian households over the period 1997-2007. Results show that participation in the tourism market is strongly affected by the personal characteristics of individuals and that tourism consumption is an income sensitive good. The analysis reveals that tourism is generally a luxury good reflecting the disparities in the standard of living among Italian families. We have found tha…

Rewarding effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (“Ecstasy”) in dominant and subordinate OF-1 mice in the place preference conditioning paradigm

2006

We tested the ability of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) to induce conditioned place preference (CPP) in dominant and subordinate OF-1 mice subjected to cohabitation and repeated sessions of agonistic confrontation, as well as in non-confronted mice. We selected doses of MDMA (2, 6, 10 mg/kg) previously reported to induce CPP in mice and we measured expression of c-Fos evoked by the treatments in non-confronted mice. MDMA induced c-Fos protein in several corticolimbic regions involved in drug-induced reward. Mice were exposed to brief sessions of agonistic confrontation on 5 consecutive days. Determinations of circulating hormones and drug conditioning tests were carried out on com…

Functional feature of a novel model of blood brain barrier: Studies on permeation of test compounds

2001

Drug delivery to the central nervous system (CNS) is subject to the permeability limitations imposed by the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Several systems in vitro have been described to reproduce the physical and biochemical behavior of intact BBB, most of which lack the feature of the in vivo barrier. We developed a fully formed monolayer of RBE4.B immortalized rat brain microvessel endothelial cells (ECs), grown on top of polycarbonate filter inserts with cortical neuronal cells grown on the outside. Neurons induce ECs to synthesize and sort occludin to the cell periphery. Occludin localization is regulated by both compositions of the substratum and soluble signals released by cortical co-cu…