Purpose: The representation of economic and financial crimes in the mass media can have a significant impact on readers’ and citizens’ perceptions of illegality and on a firm’s propensity to invest in different areas of the country in question. This paper aims to study the possible...

This paper studies the practise of quality disclosure and quality certification of sellers and experts in the Italian motorcycle industry between 2007 and 2010. Motorcycles are a combination of search, experience and credence attributes and consumers cannot observe product quality perfectly....

We derive the optimal ratio between advertising and sales income when a publisher maximises its profits with respect to advertising space and product price. If consumers are more adverse towards advertising than towards price, the ratio is higher. The same theoretical framework is used to...

The variety and quality of products has a great importance in the analysis of international trade flows. Several theoretical models show that larger and richer economies produce and export goods characterized by higher variety and quality. Accordingly, empirical studies have tried to quantify...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the empirical relationship between specialization, diversification and rate of survival in the digital publishing industry. The sample includes all publishing companies in Italy that produce electronic content and distribute it through internet...