Giorgio D’agostino
Biographic Data
| ID | 4262389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giorgio D’agostino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giorgio |
| FAMILY NAME | D’agostino |
| SIGNATURE | D’AGOSTINO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roma Tre University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1287-7603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Military Spending and the Falling Rate of Profit in the United States
The relationship between militarism, military spending, and the development of capitalism has been widely debated among Marxist scholars, with no clear consensus. This article contributes to this discussion by examining how military expenditure relates to profit and output in the world’s largest military spender, the United States. Focusing on a single-country case study enables a more detailed analysis than recent cross-national research. After …
Military Keynesianism and East Asia
Expectations have been high that East Asia would provide the growth engine for the global economy in the twenty first century. At the same time, it has become increasingly clear that these economies face headwinds, not least in north-east Asia from accelerated demographic aging, leading to fears that these economies, too, face the prospect of secular stagnation, and that Japan’s ‘lost decades’ could spread much further afield. With geopolitical t…
Threshold of shadows
This paper investigates the complicity of local public buyers in enabling the diversion of resources to organised crime through the manipulation of contract values in public works and services. Exploiting a discontinuity in anti-mafia screening procedures, we analyse a comprehensive dataset of public procurement contracts issued by Italian municipalities spanning from 2007 to 2019. Bunching estimators reveal a distinct pattern of contract value m…
The price of war
With the growth in conflict around the world, the measurement of the likely economic cost of conflict is an important task in making the case for peacekeeping, peacemaking and post conflict reconstruction to prevent recurrence. Conflict is also a development issue, as most of the conflicts affect the poorest countries and are often civil wars. This paper deals with a number of issues that arise in the literature and presents a comprehensive analy…
Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy
The Political Dimension of Cash Transfers in Latin America and Sub‐Saharan Africa
This article compares the consolidated experience of conditional cash transfers in Latin America with a variety of models of cash transfers (CTs) in middle‐ and low‐income countries in Sub‐Saharan Africa. We explore the recent literature with the aim to highlight the underlying political economy factors that have underpinned the emergence and scaling up of various kinds of social protection strategies in the two regions. Some implications and pol…
Cash Transfers, Labor Supply, and Gender Inequality
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the impact of the Child Support Grant (CSG) implemented in South Africa on the labor supply of the parents of beneficiary children. The aim is to assess whether the program improved or lessened gender inequality in the labor market. Using data from a national panel survey and applying a fuzzy regression discontinuity design that exploits an expansion in eligibility due to a discontinuous change in age …
Modelling Corruption Perceptions
Government Spending, Corruption and Economic Growth
Innovation, Socio-institutional Conditions and Economic Growth in the Italian Regions
D'Agostino G. and Scarlato M. Innovation, socio-institutional conditions and economic growth in the Italian regions, Regional Studies. An explanatory investigation is carried out into the relationship between social and institutional contextual factors and economic growth in the Italian regions. A three-sector semi-endogenous growth model with negative externalities related to the social and institutional variables affecting the innovative capaci…
Government Spending, Corruption and Economic Growth
Innovation, Socio-institutional Conditions and Economic Growth in the Italian Regions
D'Agostino G. and Scarlato M. Innovation, socio-institutional conditions and economic growth in the Italian regions, Regional Studies. An explanatory investigation is carried out into the relationship between social and institutional contextual factors and economic growth in the Italian regions. A three-sector semi-endogenous growth model with negative externalities related to the social and institutional variables affecting the innovative capaci…
Modelling Corruption Perceptions
Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy
Innovation, Socio-institutional Conditions and Economic Growth in the Italian Regions
D'Agostino G. and Scarlato M. Innovation, socio-institutional conditions and economic growth in the Italian regions, Regional Studies. An explanatory investigation is carried out into the relationship between social and institutional contextual factors and economic growth in the Italian regions. A three-sector semi-endogenous growth model with negative externalities related to the social and institutional variables affecting the innovative capaci…
Government Spending, Corruption and Economic Growth
Modelling Corruption Perceptions
The Political Dimension of Cash Transfers in Latin America and Sub‐Saharan Africa
This article compares the consolidated experience of conditional cash transfers in Latin America with a variety of models of cash transfers (CTs) in middle‐ and low‐income countries in Sub‐Saharan Africa. We explore the recent literature with the aim to highlight the underlying political economy factors that have underpinned the emergence and scaling up of various kinds of social protection strategies in the two regions. Some implications and pol…
Cash Transfers, Labor Supply, and Gender Inequality
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the impact of the Child Support Grant (CSG) implemented in South Africa on the labor supply of the parents of beneficiary children. The aim is to assess whether the program improved or lessened gender inequality in the labor market. Using data from a national panel survey and applying a fuzzy regression discontinuity design that exploits an expansion in eligibility due to a discontinuous change in age …
Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy
Threshold of shadows
This paper investigates the complicity of local public buyers in enabling the diversion of resources to organised crime through the manipulation of contract values in public works and services. Exploiting a discontinuity in anti-mafia screening procedures, we analyse a comprehensive dataset of public procurement contracts issued by Italian municipalities spanning from 2007 to 2019. Bunching estimators reveal a distinct pattern of contract value m…
The price of war
With the growth in conflict around the world, the measurement of the likely economic cost of conflict is an important task in making the case for peacekeeping, peacemaking and post conflict reconstruction to prevent recurrence. Conflict is also a development issue, as most of the conflicts affect the poorest countries and are often civil wars. This paper deals with a number of issues that arise in the literature and presents a comprehensive analy…
Military Spending and the Falling Rate of Profit in the United States
The relationship between militarism, military spending, and the development of capitalism has been widely debated among Marxist scholars, with no clear consensus. This article contributes to this discussion by examining how military expenditure relates to profit and output in the world’s largest military spender, the United States. Focusing on a single-country case study enables a more detailed analysis than recent cross-national research. After …
Military Keynesianism and East Asia
Expectations have been high that East Asia would provide the growth engine for the global economy in the twenty first century. At the same time, it has become increasingly clear that these economies face headwinds, not least in north-east Asia from accelerated demographic aging, leading to fears that these economies, too, face the prospect of secular stagnation, and that Japan’s ‘lost decades’ could spread much further afield. With geopolitical t…
Economics (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (4 works) · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies (4 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (3 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Language change (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)