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The Italian industrial system between globalization and crisis

Accetturo, Antonio; Bassanetti, Antonio; Bugamelli, Matteo - Banca d'Italia - 2013

significant economies of scale (electronic products and motor vehicles). Our study links unsatisfactory productivity gains and the …

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Firms and gender: performance differentials between male and female firms

Depalo, Domenico; Lotti, Francesca - Banca d'Italia - 2013

¿½ characteristics. In this paper we evaluate whether this finding also holds for Italy in terms of productivity and returns …, namely the retail sector, restaurants, hotels etc.. In terms of performance, measured by profitability and productivity (and …

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The big players in Italian local public services. Constraints, opportunities and growth strategies

Bianco, Magda; Mele, Daniela; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2008

One of the objectives of the reforms and liberalization of the last 15 years in local public services was to reduce the traditional fragmentation of production. This was to be achieved through restructuring that reduced inefficiencies and made it more possible to exploit economies of scale,...

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

Marchetti, D.J.; Parigi, G. - Banca d'Italia - 1998

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Mapping local productivity advantages in Italy: industrial districts, cities or both?

Giacinto, Valter Di; Gomellini, Matteo; Micucci, Giacinto; … - Banca d'Italia - 2012

We compare the magnitude of local productivity advantages associated with two different spatial concentration patterns … productivity advantages for both urban areas and industrial districts. However, firms located in urban areas reap a larger … productivity premium than those operating within districts. The advantages of industrial districts have declined over time; those …

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Information technology and productivity changes in the Italian banking industry

Casolaro, Luca; Gobbi, Giorgio - Banca d'Italia - 2004

This paper analyzes the effect of information technologies (IT) in the financial sector using micro-data on a panel of over 600 Italian banks over the period 1989-2000. We estimate stochastic cost and profit functions allowing for individual banksï¿½ displacements from the efficient frontier...

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Skill dispersion and firm productivity; an analysis with employer-employee matched data

Iranzo, Susanna; Schivardi, Fabiano; Tosetti, Elisa - Banca d'Italia - 2006

We study the relation between workersï¿½ skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique dataset of Italian … production function that depends on the skill composition show that a firmï¿½s productivity is positively related to skill …

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Openess to trade and industry cost dispersion: Evidence from a panel of Italian firms

Gatto, Massimo Del; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Pagnini, … - Banca d'Italia - 2007

We use Italian firm-level data to investigate the impact of trade openness on the distribution of firms across marginal cost levels. In so doing, we implement a procedure that allows us to control not only for the standard transmission bias identified in firm-level TFP regressions but also for...

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The economic and financial situation of Italian non financial corporations: an international comparison

Socio, Antonio De - Banca d'Italia - 2010

The paper analyses the main differences in the financial structure of Italian and European non financial corporations in the 2004-2007 period, that is during the years before the financial crisis. The research is based on individual balance sheets of Amadeus (Analyse Major Databases from...

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