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The analysis of the determinants and the effects on firm performance of venture capital finance for a sample of Italian enterprises indicates that small, young and more innovative firms are more likely to be financed by a venture capitalist. Our results confirm that venture capital can help...
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This paper examines private equity and venture capital in Italy. The first part looks at the main features of the Italian market and its recent evolution; the second part considers the results of a survey of firms and intermediaries designed to gather information regarding contract features and...
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This paper analyses the financial and economic conditions of the companies in the portfolios of Italian private equity funds. Information from an ad hoc survey of Italian asset management companies, combined with accounting data for 2008 drawn from the Central Credit Register, is used to develop...
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The topic of financing long-term investment is on the top of the agenda of economic policy makers and it is among the priorities of the Italian Presidency of the European Union. The paper describes the main international initiatives in the field and highlights the three most promising courses of...
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The paper describes the characteristics of the market for private placements and discusses the necessary conditions for their uptake in Europe. A private placement is a method of financing used mainly by medium-sized companies which, unable to access the public bond market, turn to one or more...
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¿½ memory for cinema prices with questionnaires distributed to moviegoers. The analysis concentrates on the memory of pre-euro … respondents recalled the correct price, and that the average prices recalled were much lower than the actual pre-euro prices and …
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We test whether and how the adoption of the euro, narrowly defined as the end of competitive devaluations, has affected … the euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption … restructuring more since the adoption of the euro. Restructuring has entailed a shift of business focus from production to upstream …
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This study investigates inflation perceptions in both qualitative and quantitative terms and their relationship with factors likely to affect them. This has been done in a unified framework through a survey of a representative sample of Italian consumers carried out at the end of 2006. The...
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The introduction of the euro notes and coins in the first two months of 2002 was followed by a lively debate on the … alleged inflationary effects of the new currency. In Italy, as in the rest of the euro area, survey-based measures signaled a … hypothesis that, after the introduction of the euro notes and coins, consumer prices underwent an increase not recorded by …
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Following the introduction of euro banknotes and coins many Italians perceived a much sharper increase in the price …
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