nonparametric testing tools for data consistency with special cases of the collective model, which impose specific structure on the … preferences of the group members (in terms of consumption externalities and public consumption); and we show that these testing … income shares that underlie observed (collectively rational) group behavior. In addition, we present formally similar testing …

set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990’s. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …

-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation - internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … technological acquisitions - have been simultaneously explored through the two (direct and indirect) testing frameworks for …