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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Settore SECS-P/02 - Politica Economica"”.
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Three Economic Extensions of John Rawls's Social Contract Theory: European Fiscal Union, Tax Compliance and Climate Change
In my thesis I apply the ethical model developed by John Rawls (1999) to three systems which have an economic dimension: European Union, tax compliance and environmental sustainability. With this task my purpose is to answer to the following overarching research question: is an impartial and …
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The sub Saharan Africa Cotton Sector. Selected Features
Though cotton only represents a very small share in world merchandise trade, it is an indispensable commodity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Productivity and profitability of cotton production and processing are key determinants of growth in cotton producing countries. This study analyses the SSA …
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Integration in times of crisis. Testing Neofunctional hypotheses: a political economy investigation of crisis-led integration.
… two phenomena have captured the attention of political economists interested in European integration: the outstanding amount of new institutions, policies, and legislation which have been set in place to counter the crisis, and the rising popular rejection of the very concept of European …
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Empirical Essays on the Economics of Food Price Shocks: Micro-econometric Evidence from Uganda
This thesis contains four closely related essays which address the empirical issues pertaining to the causes, consequences, and households’ responses to food price shocks in Uganda. The first essay investigates the nature of volatilities in agricultural commodity prices in Uganda between 2000 and …
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Territorial Challenges and Sustainable Regional Development. A mixed-method approach
This thesis advances a Sustainable Regional Development approach for marginalized territories by integrating quantitative diagnostics and qualitative governance analysis in central Italy (Rome, Rieti and L’Aquila). Chapter 1 assesses municipal liveability with an SDG11-aligned composite index and …
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Knowledge Networks in Emerging ICT Regional Innovation Systems: An Explorative Study of the Knowledge Network of Trentino ICT Innovation System
Although the last thirty years Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) received great attention by policy makers, only during the last decade social networks were applied in the fields of innovation and regional economics. The majority of the existing empirical studies on networks adopt a static point of …
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The State Again
The overall goal of this work is to study the effect of a crisis on the distribution and employment and the space of manoeuvre of the government for supporting and reverting the negative shock produced by such a crisis. Every chapter of this work and the related models are supported by both a …
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