Fabio Carlucci

University of Salerno | UNISA · Department of Economics and Statistics DISES

The strategic role of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) at the Italian level has also been underlined by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan, which has provided an important economic endowment to relaunch the national economy, in general, and the Campania region territorial economy, in particular. Literature and best practices clearly show...

The increasing policy interest in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has stimulated an interesting debate in the research community. Although there are numerous studies focusing on this issue, in literature little attention has been devoted to the impact of the initiative on the performances of Italian firms involved in agribusiness. In order to br...

•The deregulation process played a key role in terms of airport efficiency.•The technical efficiency of 32 Italian airports has been evaluated•The methodological approach has been twofold: DEA and Tobit model•The main results show that efficiency is independent of an airport's size.•The findings highlight the decisive role of public shareholders in...

The evolution of economic systems has produced a new vision of the spatial and localization models in which transport and logistics are deemed to play a major role in generating value to economic areas. Different methods of parametric and nonparametric analysis are applied to deal with the issue of the efficiency and competitiveness of territories....

In the last decades the dramatic increase of traffics within the Mediterranean seaports has stimulated the debate on how to design effective infrastructural policies, able to boost ports’ efficiency and by this way promoting sustainable development in the surrounding areas. In this regard, system dynamics modelling appears a suitable methodological...

The economic impact of environmentally friendly innovations, and their knowledge externalities on productivity received an increasing attention from the research community. Although there are numerous studies focusing on this issue, to our knowledge, there is no systematic literature review so far able to provide a complete outlook on the state-of-...

The effect of environmental innovation on employment is increasingly relevant for sustainable development. However, few studies have examined the role of environmental spillovers based on local innovation at the firm level. We addressed this gap by analysing European, Japanese and American firms, a set of developed economies with different economic...

The implementation and the diffusion of environmental policy is a hotspot in European ecosystem management. Policy diffusion meets the need of the harmonization principle in which the EU countries must converge towards the same targets. In the light of this, the paper aims to explain the main determinants of the environmental diffusion policy, allo...

Logistics infrastructures play an important role in many fields of economic activity, substantially influencing land use planning. Despite this, scholars and practitioners have dedicated little attention to setting up efficient indicators able to define the effect that infrastructure investments have on industrial activities. Many theoretical and e...

Solving the problem of the lack of environmental sustainability in transport activities requires the involvement of new technologies, particularly in populated cities where mobility activities play a major role in generating externalities. The move from cars powered by conventional internal combustion engines to cars powered by alternative energies...

Addressing the long-term sustainability challenge in the policymaking process requires close engagement of private firms—particularly in the green innovation area—along with other actors. Involvement of private firms in the implementation of privatization policies is encouraged by national governments, as it is believed that such engagement will he...

In literature concerning transportation little attention has been devoted to the institutional aspects involved in the strategic interaction between the Central Government and its local bodies. Scholars and practitioners analysing problems related to transport impacts on territory, generally disregard the big complexity tied to the relationship of...

This paper reports on the factors associated with non-fatal urban-road accident severity. Data on accidents were gathered from the local traffic police in the City of Palermo, one of the six most populated cities in Italy. Findings from a mixed-effects logistic-regression model suggest that accident severity increases when two young drivers are inv...

From an environmental point of view, it is widely recognized in economic literature that an efficient management of regional airports produces positive effects both for congestion reduction in the larger airports and for better use of existing infrastructures. Regional airports generally suffer from economic vulnerabilities because of scarcity of t...

Despite the rapid growth of the sector, academic research on microcredit programs is still limited. In the economic development literature, the prevailing thesis is that the inadequate regulatory context is the main factor that explains the untapped potential of microfinance industry in developed economies. In this context, this paper proposes the...

This paper is based on the idea that the success of an environmental policy applied to the industrial sector is driven by cooperation between all parties involved, which represent both public and private actors. An innovative index to measure ecological industrial policy—Industrial Environmental Sustainability Index (IESI)—was designed using the Pr...

Using both a multivariate technique and a classic convergence analysis, we set out to test in an original way if the European Union (EU) regulation on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced by urban road transport has generated a policy transfer process. By doing so, this paper attempts to fill the gap in research on ex-post analysis to assess whe...

In the transport related literature little attention has been devoted to the institutional aspects involved in the strategic interaction between the central government and its local bodies. This might seem surprising given the relevance of the problem. This paper analyses the impact of the devolution of administrative powers on the transport sector...

Only recently has the inequity among territories in terms of infrastructures and logistics services for freight transport become the subject of several studies regarding measurement and assessment of operational functionality and correspondence of supply for real mobility needs. The efficiency and competitiveness of territories are features that ma...

Il lavoro affronta l’ampia tematica dei sistemi di finanziamento delle aree protette. Prendendo spunto dalle politiche pubbliche messe in atto dall’Italia per la salvaguardia dei parchi naturali, si è cercato di valutare l’efficienza di un sistema di prezzi quale forma di finanziamento di tali siti. A tal fine, si è condotta un’analisi sulla dispon...

Il presente lavoro analizza la tematica degli investimenti nelle infrastrutture del trasporto aereo, sottolineando la tendenza da parte delle comunità locali, ad esercitare azioni di lobbying nei confronti dei policy maker allo scopo di ottenere nuovi impianti ritenuti volano dello sviluppo economico. Come è ovvio tale tendenza si scontra con probl...

The smashing growth of the containers' traffic within the Mediterranean sea-ports has forced most of the local governments to rethink the development policies of infrastructures, so to better match the new market requests. The idea that the efficiency of seaports may also lead to an economical development of the involved area, with beneficial socia...

The constant growth of containerized traffic in the ports of the Mediterranean Sea has led many local administrations to recast their development plans on seaports infrastructures in order to best meet market demand. Among the reasons that justify investments in port sector, higher seaport efficiency incentives the economic development of the area...

The choice processes of maritime terminals included in the networks have become, in recent times, a significant importance due to the general improvement of accessibility that has characterized most of the infrastructure. The high degree of interconnection of the terminals, achieved thanks to the logistics innovation processes, revealed other attri...

The aim of this work is to analyze the role of air transport for the economic development of peripheral areas. Liberalization and deregulation processes have involved all aspects of the air transport activity, producing significant change to the supply side of the air transport market. Airlines have tried to expand their market share, efficiency, a...

The smashing growth of the containers’ traffic within the Mediterranean seaports has forced most of the local governments to rethink the development policies of infrastructures, so to better match the new market requests. The idea that the efficiency of seaports may also lead to an economical development of the involved area, with beneficial social...