This study uses firm level data from two detailed surveys of Italian manufacturing firms to study the relationship …

of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance … characterise the economic growth-environmental performance relationship. Signals of inverted U shape appears: this may be a signal …

in Italy, an area rich of manufacturing districts. We analyse EIs drivers and effects on firms’ performances through a … performance. …

compare two types of contracts: a deforestation performance-based contract and a conditional avoided deforestation … information rent/efficiency trade-off. If the contract is performance-based (resp. conditionality-based), information rents are …

positive effect of ownership concentration on firm performance matters more in countries with weak investor protection and that … private domestic ownership leads to higher performance. …

provides an empirical analysis on how individuals’ relative income position affects their performance. Using a unique data set … income differences within a team, the worse the performance of the soccer players is. The more the players are integrated in … a particular social environment (their team), the more evident this negative effect is. …

that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution …

shows that, depending on the relative damage inflicted by the two industries on the environment, it is possible that the …