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The protection of industrial inventions: analysis of the regulation and policy evaluation.

Sabbatini, Daniele - Banca d'Italia - 2011

The Italian and European regulatory framework for patents would benefit from further improvements in order to foster …

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Matching of PATSTAT applications to AIDA firms: discussion of the methodology and results

Lotti, Francesca; Marin, Giovanni - Banca d'Italia - 2013

This paper is a brief methodological note on the matching of Italian firms in the AIDA database with applicants at the European Patent Office from the PATSTAT database. The need to match data on patent applications with balance-sheet information stems from the importance of patent statistics as...

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Stars and comets: an exploration of the patent universe

Menon, Carlo - Banca d'Italia - 2011

inventors -- the comets -- register one or few patents, while a small number of inventors -- the stars -- register many patents … that the two categories of patents are associated with different kinds of cities. We then test whether the activity of … stars is beneficial for local comets, finding that a 10% increase in the number of patents authored by star inventors leads …

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Inward foreign direct investment and innovation: evidence from Italian provinces

Antonietti, Roberto; Bronzini, Raffaello; Cainelli, Giulio - Banca d'Italia - 2015

, regressing the annual number of patents in each province and industry against a series of lagged FDI variables. Our results show …

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Income reporting behaviour in sample surveys

Neri, Andrea; Zizza, Roberta - Banca d'Italia - 2010

This paper analyses respondents' behaviour when reporting their income sources in sample surveys and presents a method to deal with response error. Survey data relating to the number of earning recipients and to amounts received are validated using external information from administrative and...

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Firm Size Distribution and Growth

Pagano, Patrizio; Schivardi, Fabiano - Banca d'Italia - 2001

We empirically characterize the sectoral distribution of firm size for a set of European countries, finding substantial differences. We then study the relationship between productivity growth at the sectoral level and size structure. We find a positive and robust association between average firm...

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Energy Consumption, Survey Data and the Prediction of Industrial Production in Italy

Marchetti, Domenico J.; Parigi, Giuseppe - Banca d'Italia - 1998

We investigate the prediction of Italian industrial production. We first specify a model based on electricity consumption; we show that the cubic trend in such a model mostly captures the evolution over time of the electricity coefficient, which can be well approximated by a smooth transition...

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Cost efficiency in the retail payment networks: first evidence from the Italian credit card system

Ardizzi, Guerino - Banca d'Italia - 2003

In this paper, a parametric cost frontier for the credit card market is specified (ï¿½stochastic frontier approachï¿½ - SFA) and robustness checks of the main results are performed. The aim is to provide some clues to: the x-inefficiency problem and determinants in a retail payment...

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The Political Economy of Investor Protection

Tommasino, Pietro - Banca d'Italia - 2006

Why do some countries suffer from backward financial institutions and weak corporate governance rules? We show that, even if, overall, the economy would benefit corporate governance reforms, not all the agents would stand to gain from the improvement. In particular, entrepreneurs and firms that...

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Export prices, product quality and firms' characteristic: An analisys on a sample of Italian firms

Bugamelli, Matteo - Banca d'Italia - 2007

The unsatisfactory performance of Italian export volumes in the last decade has been attributed to three factors; the product specialization still centered around traditional sectors, the small firm size and the exceptional rise in export unit values. This paper analyzes the latter with the aim...

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