This paper studies costs and benefits of firm networks, and related industrial policies, with a focus on the "network contract" recently introduced in the Italian legislation. Incentives to networks creation could be useful to foster future mergers, but may prove ineffective as a substitute for...

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...

We analyze the impact of the financial crisis on the structure and the dynamics of the Italian inter-bank market, focusing on monthly banks' assets and liabilities data between January 2007 and December 2010. The analysis is developed using an ad hoc data-set based on supervisory reports. The...