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On the basis of the guidelines established by the SRM Management Board, the topics of interest can be summarized in three research areas:

Business Economy and Non Profit Sector
SRM studies include: enterprise economic dynamics; macroeconomics scenarios; entrepreneurship, SMEs internationalization.  Non Profit economy is also a permanent field of analysis.

Public Finance, Infrastructures and Public Utilities
SRM conducts researches and draft reports on economic and financial topics especially referred to Southern Italy’s territory, in a Euro-Mediterranean perspective.  Many SRM studies concern: Infrastructure System (Ports, Airports, Interports, Hydric Resources); Public Finance (at European, national and local level); Local Public Services (Public Utilities) and Cohesion Policies.

Mediterranean Economy and Territorial Statistics
Amongst SRM activities: data entry and information processing; drafting of reports on Mediterranean economic and entrepreneurial dynamics. Particularly, with the Permanent Observatory on the Mediterranean Economy, SRM systematically studies trade and the economic inter-exchange dynamics between Italy/Southern Italy and Mediterranean countries.

As a result of its study and research activity, SRM publishes three different kinds of publishing products: periodical reports, monographic researches and reviews.

Periodical reports: SRM publishes three annual reports realized in cooperation with other research centers: the Local Public Finance Report, together with IRES, IRPET, IRER and IPRES; the Enterprise and Competitiveness Report, in collaboration with OBI; the Internationalization Report, in collaboration with the Researches Department of Bank Intesa Sanpaolo. Moreover, SRM publishes  the six-monthly report entitled “Check-up Mezzogiorno”, together with Confindustria Mezzogiorno.

Monographic researches: Since 2003 SRM has developed an intense activity of publication of researches on topics connected with the analysis and monitoring of Southern Italy’s territory: infrastructures, public finance, entrepreneurship and non-profit sector. Reviews: Since 2004 SRM has published the international review entitled “Rassegna Economica”, founded in 1931 by Banco di Napoli. Since 1993 it has published the two-monthly review entitled “Dossier Unione Europea” whose aim is to monitor the European policies and their impact on Southern Italy’s economy.

Moreover, SRM, in the framework of the Observatory on Southern Italy’s Economy, publishes the online three-monthly Statistical Report on Southern Italy’s Economy (including Lazio and Rome Region). The Report provides detailed statistical information related to regional economic trends.