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Etruria and the Origins of the Etruscans

By: Giovanni Caselli

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Etruria and the Origins of the Etruscans

By: Giovanni Caselli

This book is a contribution to Etruscan archaeology stemming from the belief that, because of the lack of written records, the historian and the archaeologist must step in to become shrewd detectives and inspect the scene of the crime to obtain evidence of the facts. It looks minutely at the material evidence on the ground during the day and at night, displaying graphically the evidence and showing the reader the resulting facts and possible new interpretations. Breaking the bounds of common place perceptions, it presents an entirely fresh image of Etruria that has been overlooked, one deeply rooted in the land and natural environment.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527584755

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9781527584754

Measuring Wellbeing

A History of Italian Living Standards

By: Giovanni Vecchi

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Measuring Wellbeing

A History of Italian Living Standards

By: Giovanni Vecchi

Nutrition -- Height -- Health -- Child labour -- Education -- Migration -- Income -- Inequality -- Poverty -- Wealth -- Vulnerability -- Human development -- Household budgets -- Cost of living

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Oxford University Press

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0199944598

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9780199944590

Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs

By: Giovanni Dupré

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Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs

By: Giovanni Dupré

Reproduction of the original: Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs by Giovanni Dupré

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752388226

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9783752388220

An Ice Age Hunter

By: Giovanni Caselli

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An Ice Age Hunter

By: Giovanni Caselli

The story of a year in the life of an ice-age family as experienced by a young girl.

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0872261034

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9780872261037

The Renaissance and the New World

By: Giovanni Caselli

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The Renaissance and the New World

By: Giovanni Caselli

Presents, in text and illustrations, a range of people whose way of life reveals various aspects of the society developing in Europe and America from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.

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Peter Bedrick Books

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0872265641

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9780872265646

An Empirical Reassessment of the Relationship Between Finance and Growth

By: Mr.Giovanni Favara

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An Empirical Reassessment of the Relationship Between Finance and Growth

By: Mr.Giovanni Favara

This paper reexamines the empirical relationship between financial development and economic growth. It presents evidence based on cross-section and panel data using an updated dataset, a variety of econometric methods, and two standard measures of financial development: the level of liquid liabilities of the banking system and the amount of credit issued to the private sector by banks and other financial institutions. The paper identifies two sets of findings. First, in contrast with the recent evidence of Levine, Loayza, and Beck (2001), cross-section and panel-data-instrumental-variables regressions reveal that the relationship between financial development and economic growth is, at best, weak. Second, there is evidence of nonlinearities in the data, suggesting that finance matters for growth only at intermediate levels of financial development. Moreover, using a procedure appropriately designed to estimate long-run relationships in a panel with heterogeneous slope coefficients, there is no clear indication that finance spurs economic growth. Instead, for some specifications, the relationship is, puzzlingly, negative.

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International Monetary Fund

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1451854633

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9781451854633

The Global Welfare Impact of China

Trade Integration and Technological Change

By: Mr.Julian Di Giovanni,Mr.Andrei A. Levchenko,Mr.Jing Zhang

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The Global Welfare Impact of China

Trade Integration and Technological Change

By: Mr.Julian Di Giovanni,Mr.Andrei A. Levchenko,Mr.Jing Zhang

This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of China's trade integration and technological change in a quantitative Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a "balanced" one in which China's productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an "unbalanced" one in which China's comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well-known conjecture (Samuelson, 2004), the large majority of countries in the sample, including the developed ones, experience an order of magnitude larger welfare gains when China's productivity growth is biased towards its comparative disadvantage sectors. We demonstrate both analytically and quantitatively that this finding is driven by the inherently multilateral nature of world trade. As a separate but related exercise we quantify the worldwide welfare gains from China's trade integration.

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International Monetary Fund

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1475535236

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9781475535235

The Economics of International Migration

By: Giovanni Peri

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The Economics of International Migration

By: Giovanni Peri

The Economics of International Migration is a collection of the fundamental articles written by Giovanni Peri on the economic determinants and consequences of international migration. These papers have provided the theoretical framework and empirical analysis for a rethinking of the economics of migration, going beyond the Canonical model of labor demand and supply used until the 1990s. Beginning with a simple model that recognizes the differences between immigrants and natives as workers, the articles develop the analysis of complementarity, specialization and productivity effect of immigrants in developed economies. The book then presents a series of papers analyzing and testing the economic motivation for international migration. Finally, the focus is shifted to the effect of immigration policies and their consequences on immigration and the economy.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9814719900

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9789814719902

Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli

By: Giovanni Pascoli

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Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli

By: Giovanni Pascoli

The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetry Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912)—the founder of modern Italian poetry and one of Italy's most beloved poets—has been compared to Robert Frost for his evocation of natural speech, his bucolic settings, and the way he bridges poetic tradition and the beginnings of modernism. Featuring verse from throughout his career, and with the original Italian on facing pages, Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli is a comprehensive and authoritative collection of a fascinating and major literary figure. Reading this poet of nature, grief, and small-town life is like traveling through Italy's landscapes in his footsteps—from Romagna and Bologna to Rome, Sicily, and Tuscany—as the country transformed from an agrarian society into an industrial one. Mixing the elevated diction of Virgil with local slang and the sounds of the natural world, these poems capture sense-laden moments: a train's departure, a wren's winter foraging, and the lit windows of a town at dusk. Incorporating revolutionary language into classical scenes, Pascoli's poems describe ancient rural dramas—both large and small—that remain contemporary. Framed by an introduction, annotations, and a substantial chronology, Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnston's translations render the variety, precision, and beauty of Pascoli's poetry with a profoundly current vision.

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Princeton University Press

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0691198276

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9780691198279

Panel Data Econometrics with R

By: Yves Croissant,Giovanni Millo

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Panel Data Econometrics with R

By: Yves Croissant,Giovanni Millo

Panel Data Econometrics with R provides a tutorial for using R in the field of panel data econometrics. Illustrated throughout with examples in econometrics, political science, agriculture and epidemiology, this book presents classic methodology and applications as well as more advanced topics and recent developments in this field including error component models, spatial panels and dynamic models. They have developed the software programming in R and host replicable material on the book’s accompanying website.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111894917X

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9781118949177

Everyday Bioethics

Reflections on Bioethical Choices in Daily Life

By: Giovanni Berlinguer

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Everyday Bioethics

Reflections on Bioethical Choices in Daily Life

By: Giovanni Berlinguer

Everyday Bioethics" suggests a new perspective on the relationships between science, ethics and society. It is based upon the distinction and integration of two fields: the frontier bioethics, which examines the new development of biomedicine; and the bioethics of everyday life, which concerns all people around the world. Indeed, moral reflection on birth, human bodies, jobs, the gender and class relations, diseases and the treatment of the sick, death, the interdependence of human beings and other living creatures, has a long history, as long as that of mankind itself. The ideas and values that daily permeate the minds and behaviors of all human beings in these fields deserve the greatest attention, and are increasingly influenced by the progress of science and technology.

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Routledge

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1351868519

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9781351868518

Financial Conditions in Europe: Dynamics, Drivers, and Macroeconomic Implications

By: Giovanni Borraccia,Mr. Raphael A Espinoza,Vincenzo Guzzo,Romain Lafarguette,Fuda Jiang,Vina Nguyen,Miguel A. Segoviano,Mr. Philippe Wingender

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Financial Conditions in Europe: Dynamics, Drivers, and Macroeconomic Implications

By: Giovanni Borraccia,Mr. Raphael A Espinoza,Vincenzo Guzzo,Romain Lafarguette,Fuda Jiang,Vina Nguyen,Miguel A. Segoviano,Mr. Philippe Wingender

We develop a new measure of financial conditions (FCs) that targets the growth of financial liabilities using the partial least square methodology. We then estimate financial condition indexes (FCIs) across European economies, both at the aggregate and sectoral levels. We decompose the changes in FCs into several factors including credit availability and costs, price of risk, policy stance, and funding constraints. Our results show that FCs loosened during the pandemic thanks to policy support but started to tighten significantly since mid-2021. Using the inverse probability weighting method over the sample period from 2000 to 2023, we find that a shift from a neutral to a tight FCI regime such as the ongoing episode for most European countries will on average lower output and inflation by 2.2 percent and 0.7 percentage points respectively and increase unemployment by 0.3 percentage points over a three-year horizon.

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International Monetary Fund

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9798400254789

Budget Support Versus Project Aid

By: Mr.Tito Cordella,Mr.Giovanni Dell'Ariccia

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Budget Support Versus Project Aid

By: Mr.Tito Cordella,Mr.Giovanni Dell'Ariccia

Should donors who are interested in the effectiveness of developmental programs rely on conditional budget support or on project aid? To answer this question, we present a model in which only a subset of the developmental expenditures can be subject to conditionality. We show that budget support is preferable to project aid when donors and recipients' preferences are aligned, and when assistance is small relative to recipients' resources. Then, we test our model estimating a modified growth model for a panel of developing countries, and find evidence in support of our predictions.

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International Monetary Fund

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1451851189

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Designing Central Bank Digital Currencies

By: Mr.Itai Agur,Mr.Anil Ari,Mr.Giovanni Dell'Ariccia

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Designing Central Bank Digital Currencies

By: Mr.Itai Agur,Mr.Anil Ari,Mr.Giovanni Dell'Ariccia

We study the optimal design of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in an environment where agents sort into cash, CBDC and bank deposits according to their preferences over anonymity and security; and where network effects make the convenience of payment instruments dependent on the number of their users. CBDC can be designed with attributes similar to cash or deposits, and can be interest-bearing: a CBDC that closely competes with deposits depresses bank credit and output, while a cash-like CBDC may lead to the disappearance of cash. Then, the optimal CBDC design trades off bank intermediation against the social value of maintaining diverse payment instruments. When network effects matter, an interest-bearing CBDC alleviates the central bank's tradeoff.

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1513521950

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9781513521954

A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945

Sicily and Italy to the Fall of Rome 14 May, 1943–5 June, 1944

By: Christopher Shores,Giovanni Massimello,Russell Guest,Frank Olynyk,Winfried Bock,Andy Thomas

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A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945

Sicily and Italy to the Fall of Rome 14 May, 1943–5 June, 1944

By: Christopher Shores,Giovanni Massimello,Russell Guest,Frank Olynyk,Winfried Bock,Andy Thomas

This fourth volume in the comprehensive series “fills a gap in the existing narrative” of WWII’s Mediterranean air war (Journal of Military History). The fourth volume in this momentous series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria, which led to its surrender and occupation achieved almost by air attack alone. The account continues with the ultimately successful, but at times very hard fought, invasions of Sicily and southern Italy as burgeoning Allied air power, now with full US involvement, increasingly dominated the skies overhead. The successive occupations of Sardinia and Corsica are also covered in detail. This is essentially the story of the tactical air forces up to the point when Rome was occupied, just at the same time as the Normandy landings were occurring in northwest France. With regards to the long-range tactical role of the Allied heavy bombers, only the period from May to October is examined, while they remained based in North Africa, with the narrative continuing in a future volume. This volume also delves into the story of “the soldiers’ air force.” Frequently overshadowed by more immediate newsworthy events elsewhere, the soldiers’ struggle was often of an equally Homeric nature. “No future publication on the Mediterranean air war will be credible without use of this series.” —Air Power History

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Casemate Publishers

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1911621785

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9781911621782

Feeding the World

An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000

By: Giovanni Federico

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Feeding the World

An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000

By: Giovanni Federico

In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture during this period, explains how these feats were accomplished. Feeding the World synthesizes two hundred years of agricultural development throughout the world, providing all essential data and extensive references to the literature. It covers, systematically, all the factors that have affected agricultural performance: environment, accumulation of inputs, technical progress, institutional change, commercialization, agricultural policies, and more. The last chapter discusses the contribution of agriculture to modern economic growth. The book is global in its reach and analysis, and represents a grand synthesis of an enormous topic.

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Princeton University Press

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1400837723

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9781400837724

Topics in Artificial Intelligence

Fourth Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA '95, Florence, Italy, October 11 - 13, 1995. Proceedings

By: Associazione italiana per l'intelligenza artificiale. Congress,Marco Gori,Giovanni Soda

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Topics in Artificial Intelligence

Fourth Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA '95, Florence, Italy, October 11 - 13, 1995. Proceedings

By: Associazione italiana per l'intelligenza artificiale. Congress,Marco Gori,Giovanni Soda

This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 4th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA '95, held in Florence, Italy, in October 1995. The 31 revised full papers and the 12 short presentations contained in the volume were selected from a total of 101 submissions on the basis of a careful reviewing process. The papers are organized in sections on natural language processing, fuzzy systems, machine learning, knowledge representation, automated reasoning, cognitive models, robotics and planning, connectionist models, model-based reasoning, and distributed artificial intelligence.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540604375

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9783540604372

Rationalized and Extended Democracy

Inserting Public Scientists into the Legislative/Executive Framework, Reinforcing Citizens’ Participation

By: Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue

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Rationalized and Extended Democracy

Inserting Public Scientists into the Legislative/Executive Framework, Reinforcing Citizens’ Participation

By: Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue

In this book, Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue asserts that the realization of the values and the implementation of the objectives as indicated in democratic constitutions (political, social rights and the people’s welfare) are hindered by structural defects of the legislative/government architecture and processes. Expertise and science have scarce say in politics and policy. The author suggests an innovative view through the ‘REDemo Project’. 1. Rationalization: the insertion of public scientists into legislative/executive mechanisms, with the creation in each democracy of a National Scientific Assembly – parallel to the extant partypolitical Chamber of Representatives – consisting of academic experts and researchers (legal scholars, political analysts, economists, sociologists, land/urban planners, industry/infrastructure designers, biotechnologists, agronomists, ecologists, educationists, specialists on public health, on cultural heritage, etc.) elected by universal suffrage; 2. Extension: the broadening of the institutions of direct democracy and reinforcement of the electorate as decision-maker of last resort. So the main themes and objectives of the book are an examination of the major flaws in today’s democracies (pars destruens) and a proposal for a renewed institutional framework (pars construens).

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Firenze University Press

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9791221501605

A Greek Potter

By: Giovanni Caselli

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A Greek Potter

By: Giovanni Caselli

Observes a potter and his family living in Athens in 420 B.C., a time of the Olympics, a great festival to Athena, and the construction of many temples, and describes the potter at work making and decorating pots. Includes illustrations of tools and equipment he and his family might have used in their daily lives.

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Peter Bedrick Books

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0872261018

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9780872261013

An Irish Pilgrim

By: Giovanni Caselli

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An Irish Pilgrim

By: Giovanni Caselli

Depicts life in medieval Europe while describing a pilgrimage from Ireland across France around 600 A.D., in which travelers from a monastery follow in the footsteps of the saintly monk Columbanus and hear about his deeds.

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