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Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Veronesi Vittoria, Pirotti Guia Beatrice, De Angelis Corvi Elena

Successful strategies for the agri-food industry

In the first half of 2020, Italian agri-food exports to the United States totaled more than EUR 2 billion, up 4.5% compared to 2019 and registering a double-digit growth over the corresponding period in 2018. Moreover, the value of food and beverage exports to the United States is expected to increase by around EUR 11 billion by 2023. As revealed by the success of the Mutti and Marchesi Antinori labels, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Marafioti Elisabetta

The New Overseas Route for Italian Fashion

Although the health emergency has caused a strong drop in exports and interruptions in the supply chain, the strong acceleration of the process of digitalization has allowed for reducing the centrality of distribution channels in the American market, historically the largest barrier for Italian fashion companies interested in approaching the United States.#The principal threat to Italian leadership ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Amatori Franco

Searching for European Capitalism

Contractual cooperation, family management of businesses, the entrepreneurial state and the presence of a labor movement with a leading role in political and social life; these are the four pillars of European capitalism, the common denominators of certain importance. However, after the mid-20th Century, they were overwhelmed by three waves: the Americanization resulting from the Marshall Plan, the ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Reviglio Edoardo

The Virtues of the Social Market Economy

At the end of the Second World War, the attempts by the United States to export its model of capitalism to Europe ran up against the economic and social structures present in the countries of the Old Continent. However, following the crisis of the 1970s and the start of the process of privatization, a deep Americanization of European capitalism began, initially led by merchant banks and consulting ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Lilla Antonello, Saporito Raffaella

Fighting Fraud Thanks to Algorithms

Starting with the information it has available, the Italian pension and social insurance institute INPS has developed an algorithm to identify companies whose behavior seems to indicate fraud. The entity has also observed that, through preventive actions, it is possible to reduce the propensity for fraud of companies given special attention by predictive analysis.Following an experiment, INPS found ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Cafarelli Alessandro, Cameran Mara, Pettinicchio Angela

Gender Pay Gap and Corporate Performance

According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2018 published by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the gender gap measured worldwide is 32%, calculated across four thematic dimensions: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment.The same report highlights how differences in pay negatively impact corporate performance. Furthermore, the pay ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Paolazzi Luca

European Diversity Without Unity

A clear distinction exists between the U.S. and Europe: while the former is a nation, the latter is a sum of many nations, even larger than the number of states of which it consists. This heterogeneity, especially at a cultural level, makes it hard to speak of a single European capitalism, with unique and similar characteristics. There are actually different types, strongly rooted in the cultural ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Giavazzi Francesco

The Return of the State? It Depends

The financial crisis of 2008-2009 did not lead to a return of the state in the economy, but to a liquidity crisis. In Europe, this was less acute than in the United States, where for example the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) avoided bankruptcies, but did not solve the underlying problems, such as those of the three large automotive companies (General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford), which suffered ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/3) Palmarini Nicola

The Long-Living, or Ageless, Consumer

Individuals over 65 not only need health and safety, but they wish to have fun, consume, appear, and travel. We need to begin to redesign what is offered to them in line with the needs and tastes of this demographic category, for which less than 15 percent of companies have developed ad hoc business strategies. Moreover, the immediate future will increasingly see the emergence of a potential "permanent ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/3) Pensa Cristina, G. M. Sica Francesca

All the Opportunities of the MENA Area

The MENA area has factors of attractiveness that make it desirable as a new "promised land for business" for Italian companies. The MENA area has points of strength that appear specular to the weaknesses of Italy.#Thanks to its geographic positioning, our country represents a natural logistics platform in the Mediterranean. Only through important investments aimed at developing our intermodal network ...