Global external imbalances widened persistently over the last several years and have narrowed abruptly over the course of the financial crisis. Understanding the extent to which structural or cyclical factors may have driven these patterns is important to assess the likely evolution of global...

L’obiettivo del lavoro è quello di mettere in luce e descrivere la configurazione dei legami produttivi sul territorio a partire dalle reti delle imprese plurilocalizzate. Sono stati utilizzati gli strumenti della network analysis per descrivere la rete, l’intensità e le caratteristiche...

Sulla base dei dati ISTAT provenienti da un panel di imprese manifatturiere nel periodo 2001-2008, il contributo si propone di indagare se e in che misura le differenze settoriali, regionali, provinciali e dimensionali incidano sulla performance delle imprese di dimensione inferiore ai 250...

The past two decades have witnessed huge changes in the electricity sector. The changes in this sector at a rapid pace world over have resulted in competition in some segments of the sector, such as, generation and in some cases in distribution. India is no exception to the reforms that are...

We develop a model in which the principal and the agent share private information about the value of the agent for a multi-agent organization. The principal can disclose private information and make public the relative standing or status of all agents in the organization. We study whether it is...

Extending the Kim (1989) model of endogenous labor specialization to an overlapping generations model with an endogenous technology choice, we show in this paper that, when the market size and the fixed costs associated with the technologies with labor specialization are small, the growth...

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Adam Smith pointed out that specialization makes individuals more productive through improved dexterity, judgment, and innovation. The theory of increasing returns incorporated in this paper does not depend on the presence of such intra-personal enhancement of productivity. Instead, we note that...

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