The now famous Coronavirus has certainly caused significant damage to the Italian economy, as well as to the global one. If we focus our attention on the various business sectors we will notice, in fact, that the owners of small and medium-sized businesses have been the ones most affected by […]
About two weeks ago, the announcement by the President of the Republic to assign the task of leading the country out of the crisis to Mario Draghi certainly represented a fundamental turning point in Italian politics. The reaction positively shook the market; the spread between our government bonds and the […]
When we talk about finance, very often we refer to the so-called classical (or if you prefer, Western). Finance based on the concept of interest and the freedom to invest in any type of asset. However, not everyone knows that there is also a branch of finance. That is characterized […]
How many times have you heard about sustainability ? How many times have they talked to you about investments ? Now with the new Reply Challenge you can combine the two elements! What is Reply? Reply is an Italian consultancy company made up of a network model of highly specialized […]
In economic-financial literature, the Enron case is cited. Now consolidated, among the most well-known scandals in the sector worldwide. The company suddenly transformed from an acclaimed model of innovative and efficient strategy. In the typical case of managerial failure and forced bankruptcy. Founded in 1985 in Houston, Texas, as an […]
Large companies seem to have found a solution to overcome the crisis: become bigger and control greater market shares. As shown by a study by the Anglo-American company Refinitiv [1], the overall value of mergers and acquisitions concluded in the world between January and April 2021 is equal to 1,770 […]
Some changes, such as the variations in the subjective criteria of propensity to save associated with the extension of life expectancy, fall within what economics calls exogenous changes and therefore little influenced by public policies. Others may instead be triggered by public policies, in the absence of which real interest […]
Italy, as recently communicated by ISTAT (the national statistics institute), has for decades now been on a long-term path where birth and mortality rates continue to decrease. The excess mortality brought about by the pandemic, compared to the expected level, was not in itself capable of slowing down the growth […]
In recent times, the issue of the minimum wage has returned to the center of political debate . For this reason, it is necessary to understand exactly what we are talking about when we refer to this concept. How it works today not only in Italy, but throughout Europe. To […]
Lagging behind among the companies in its sector, Telecom Italia has for a few weeks been the center of a news flow which perhaps has as its primary objective that of clarifying the vicissitudes that are affecting the telecommunications group. Between climbs on the stock market and descents into the […]
The new platform for integrated learning based on collaboration between experts is increasingly convincing. If the concept of ” student centrality ” now seems obvious to some, because they believe that today there can be no teaching activity that does not start from the student’s needs, it is clear that […]
Cryptocurrency is a digital currency invented in 2008 by an unknown person to allow people to make online payments securely. The first token or coin used in this system was bitcoin, and since its introduction, it has had a tremendous rise in price and popularity within society. Bitcoin has had […]
