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Sorting, reputation and entry in a market for experts

Sette, Enrico - Banca d'Italia - 2009

This paper analyses the market for professional (expert) services where the experts are motivated by reputational concerns. A key feature of such markets, which is often overlooked, is that clients can have specific characteristics that affect their evaluation of the service, and (or) the...

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Directed Matching with Endogenous Markov Probability: Clients or Competitors?

Ciapanna, Emanuela - Banca d'Italia - 2008

We analyze the problem of strategic poaching of consultants by clients with particular reference to the business consulting industry. This article presents a market equilibrium in a mixed economy where three categories of agents, consulting groups, client firms and consultants strategically...

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Too many lawyers? Litigation in Italian civil courts

Carmignani, Amanda; Giacomelli, Silvia - Banca d'Italia - 2010

In this paper we investigate the relationship between the number of lawyers and civil litigation across Italian provinces over the period 2000-2005. First, we document the existence of a positive correlation between the number of lawyers and litigation. We then employ a 2SLS approach to verify...

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The Italian technology balance of payments

Tosti, Enrico - Banca d'Italia - 2013

Italy of a new data collection system based mainly on direct reporting by enterprises, credits and debits tend to be …

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Growth of small and medium-sized enterprises and employment : Delegazione Pontificia per il Santuario della Santa Casa, Cassa di Risparmio di Loreto ; Conference "On the Threshold...

Fazio, Antonio G. - 1999

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Innovation and productivity in SMEs. Empirical evidence for Italy

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - Banca d'Italia - 2009

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … Italian SMEs from the ï¿½Survey on Manufacturing Firmsï¿½ conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia covering the period 1995 … firmï¿½s productivity, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive. …

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