1. Economic analysis and
processing of statistical data in the agri-food sector from local
to European level.
Focus on: agri-food districts, budget and efficiency analysis of
food firms.
Economic analysis of
structural features of the Agriculture in China.
2. Participation to
different national and international projects on elements of the
agri-food system.
Focus on: agri-food systems
in European regions and countries and analysis and evaluation of
policies for the agri-food sector.
3. Economic convergence
analysis in the European regions by means of parametric and
nonparametric methods.
4. Local and regional
development in the European Union.
5. Analysis
of public support programme of the European Union in the less
developed regions
1. The economic analysis
and statistical data evaluation in the agri-food sector from local
to European level aim to highlight the similar aspects in the
agri-food systems and their components: from agriculture, through
industry and consumption, to import and export. We identified the
areas of highest concentration and specialization in the agri-food
sectors by means of structural data on employment and number of
local units at municipal level. Using special indices we
determinated the agri-food districts in which we could perform a
economic analysis of enterprises and verify the district effect on
the basis of economic budget data. We extensively analyzed the
Chinese agriculture structural data coming from the first national
census. We applied statistical technique of multivariate analysis
to identify homogeneous agricultural areas at local at province and
county level. The result was the definition of a new "agricultural
geography" in China.
2. The participation to
national and international projects has led to analyze the impact
of the Common Agricultural Policy on
agricultural incomes and uses of agricultural soils. For this study
we applied analyzing methods of convergence. By means of regional
data of EU and each single state of U.S.A. we start a research
project on agricultural incomes under the different policy in the
agri-food sector.
3. The analysis of the
economic convergence in the different EU regions has been done
using the nonparametric method "stochastic kernel" with a special focus on the GDP
per person in the European regions. This kind of research aims to
highlight the impact of the structural policies in the different
programming periods of the income convergence. We also intend to
evaluate the "costs" following the EU enlargement to 27
countries.
4. Recently we start a
research strand focusing on the regional development. This study
aims to determinate the economic cycle of the Italian regions
identifying the expansion and recession phases by means of the
synthetic index 5 I. The pubblic supports and the evaluation of the
impact of the EU structural policies in the regions less developed
focuses on the Southern Italian regions which have the benefit of
the funds provided by the Object 1. The goal is to evaluate the
outgoing capacity of these regions.
