provide evidence of the causal impact of this policy on firms' input choices and on total factor productivity on Italian … manufacturing firms. Our empirical strategy combines structural estimation of firms' production function and techniques for policy … the productivity obtained from estimating the production function, does not provide valid inference. We rely instead on an …

gives the opportunity to analyse the industry sector's productivity by minimizing the problem of endogeneity and therefore …

This essay examines the diffusion of growth poles in Italy. This means inquiring not only into the mechanisms of the … territorial diffusion of growth in Italy in the second half of the 1990s, taking global and local effects into account. The … literature, especially in Italy, on district and non-district manufacturing clusters, to serve as a basis of comparison; iii) it …