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Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Castelli Gianluigi Vittorio, Gentile Maurizio, Pieri Valerio

Italy’s Growth Runs on Rails

Italy is the first case in the world – and the only one in Europe – of competition between high-speed rail operators. By international standards, our country’s regulatory structure and pricing are particularly advanced. In the next few years, numerous factors of change will affect the mobility and the evolution of the railway system: demographic and social, environmental, economic, and technological. ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Bettoni Francesco

All of the numbers of the Brebemi project

The A35 Brebemi was the first Italian highway to be built with project financing, i.e. through the exclusive use of private capital. In February 2019 an Agici study was presented on the economic, social, and environmental consequences of the new highway, which found positive repercussions for a territory encompassing 5 provinces, 114 municipalities, 640,000 inhabitants, and 250,000 workers, with a ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Signorini Paolo Emilio

The Ligurian Logistics Platform

Thanks to its geographic position in the heart of the Mediterranean, Italy represents a true "logistical platform" that offers multiple access points along its coast and in particular along the ports of the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic seas. However, it is necessary to rethink the role of ports, that must aim to acquire a different dimension that includes the entire maritime-port-logistics cluster, including ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Visconti Luca M.

The Long March from Stonewall to an LGBTQ+ Market

The Italian LGBTQ+ market, that can be estimated at around 93 billion euros per year already in 2016, is characterized by poor research and a small number of active companies. By examining the intersection between the high/low specificity of needs of LGBTQ+ consumers (situations in which orientation/gender identity act respectively as a strong/weak driver of purchasing) and their adaptive/proactive ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Albertini Marco

Gay-friendly Cities? Much More Can Be Done

Thanks to the conquest of civil rights based on the construction and recognition of a specific cultural, social and political identity, LGBT+ people have also become a segment of the tourism market that produces considerable sales at the global level.#LGBT+ tourism regards not only the many thematic events organized around the world, but boasts the presence of ad hoc organizations such as the International ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Antonioli Magda, di Salle Marianna

Tourism Becomes Ever More Rainbow

Today, the LGBTQ segment embraces 3 percent of more than a billion international travelers, and travel spending generated by LGBTQ travelers coming from the main markets is around 219 billion dollars per year.#Travelers in this segment are traditionally oriented towards LGBTQ friendly destinations, such as large American and European cities. However, in mature outbound markets, we are seeing an increase ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Ciuffoli Emanuela

The Indiscreet Charm of Data: The Case of Pornhub

The online pornography market is now dominated by large tech corporations that compete for very considerable amounts of business; just think, over 30 percent of all data transferred on the Internet is porn. With the affirmation of new technologies, the platforms in the sector have focused principally on facilitating the sharing of material produced by users, while the ability to collect and analyze ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Pulignano Valeria

The Ambivalence of Industrial Relations

Trade unions in Italy are currently facing certain critical problems that derive from the exhaustion of the previous phase of industrial relations, based on policies of consultation with employers’ associations and public representatives, and the difficulty of sharing a “synthesis” of the transformations underway with the other actors in industrial relations.#In the new scenario of the gig economy, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Fortin Davide

Cannabis: An Evergreen Business

Cannabis is a plant which must be distinguished into two chemotypes: one that is non-psychotropic, the characteristic of the hemp originally used for industry and food purposes; and another that is a narcotic, cannabis with high tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) used for the production of psychoactive inflorescences.#Although Italian law allows for consuming cannabis with high THC for therapeutic purposes ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Ordanini Andrea

The Legacy of Woodstock Is (A)live

Fifty years have passed since the Woodstock Festival, and many things have changed radically in the music market. However, that event left an important legacy, that is still valid today from multiple standpoints.#First of all, it marked the advent of a dual structure of the music business, with a few large companies (“majors”) that manage the most successful music, and many independent labels ...