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Innovation and productivity in SMEs. Empirical evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - Banca d'Italia - 2009
success from firm surveys along with the usual R&D expenditures and productivity measures. We then apply the model to data on … firm�s productivity, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011990
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Evidence on the impact of R&D and ICT investment on innovation and productivity in Italian firms
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - Banca d'Italia - 2012
include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099695
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Employment, innovation, and productivity: Evidence from italian microdata
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - Banca d'Italia - 2007
presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms� productivity with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005770776
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Trade liberalization and domestic suppliers: evidence from Chile
Linarello, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2014
I examine the effect of reducing export tariffs on the productivity of domestic suppliers of exporting firms. Using a …) increases the productivity of intermediate input suppliers by 1.5 percent. The increase in productivity among domestic suppliers … accounts for 22.5 percent of aggregate productivity gains. I find that tariff cuts induce firms to acquire new machinery and …
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Old and new Italian multinational firms
Berta, Giuseppe; Onida, Fabrizio - Banca d'Italia - 2011
After a quick profile of Italian foreign direct investments since 1900 and a short review of the main explanations of the lagged multinational growth by Italian manufacturing companies, a quick glimpse of business histories is given to the only two still today living "old protagonists" (Pirelli,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364464
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The internationalization of Italian production and industrial districts: an analysis of direct investment abroad
Federico, Stefano - Banca d'Italia - 2006
Using data from Ufficio italiano dei cambi for the period 1997-2001, the study analyses the distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows by sector and local area of origin. It tries to identify which local industrial structures determine a larger propensity to invest abroad, focusing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005111543
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Revisiting the empirical evidence on firms� money demand
Lotti, Francesca; Marcucci, Juri - Banca d'Italia - 2006
In this paper we estimate the demand for liquidity by US non financial firms using data from COMPUSTAT database. In contrast to the previous literature, we consider firm-specific effects, such as cost-of-capital and wages. From the balanced and unbalanced panel estimations we infer that there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113526
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Productivity and foreign competition
Bugamelli, Matteo; Rosolia, Alfonso - Banca d'Italia - 2006
development. The relation between the developing countries� market shares and sectoral productivity in Italy, both disaggregated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113565
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Sunk Costs of Exports
Bugamelli, Matteo; Infante, Luigi - Banca d'Italia - 2003
Using a very large panel dataset of Italian manufacturing firms, we test an empirical model of foreign markets participation with sunk costs. The period of analysis (1982-1999) is exceptionally informative: the large fluctuations in the lira exchange rate determined substantial flows of firms in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005609387
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Quality upgrading of Italian manufactures: evidence from firms� prices and strategies
Giacinto, Valter Di; Micucci, Giacinto - Banca d'Italia - 2011
Even before the global crisis, the Italian economy was in difficulties internationally, but slow growth and a declining share of world trade were accompanied by a perceptible process of manufacturing transformation. This paper, using data from the Bank of Italy�s survey of manufacturers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020151