I investigate the consequences of long-run persistence of a society�s preferences for cultural goods. Historical cultural activity is approximated with the frequency of births of music composers during the Renaissance and is linked with contemporary measures of cultural activity in Italian provinces. Areas with a 1% higher number of composer births nowadays show an up to 0.29% higher suppl…

Bringing together leading-edge research and innovative energy markets econometrics, this book collects the authors most important recent contributions in energy economics. In particular, the book: applies recent advances in the field of applied econometrics to investigate a number of issues regarding energy markets, including the theory of storage and the efficient markets hypothesis presents t…