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Collaboration between Firms and Universities in Italy : The Role of a Firm's Proximity to Top-Rated Departments
Fantino, Davide - 2012
In the last decade R&D expenditure in Italy has been lagging at a bare 1.2-1.3 per cent of GDP. Its private share is …, however, are available to firms. This work aims at examining the determinants of research collaboration between firms and … universities using the results of the 15th Bank of Italy Business Outlook Survey on Firms, together with data on the quality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097329
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Firms' Innovation and University Cooperation. New Evidence from a Survey of Italian Firms
Bragoli, Daniela; Cortelezzi, Flavia; Rigon, Massimiliano - 2023
Italian firms. We use a dataset merging information from two different surveys carried out by the Bank of Italy between 2007 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344549
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Cooperative R&D Networks Among Firms and Public Research Institutions
Marinucci, Marco - 2014
This paper provides theoretical background to the increasing R&D cooperation among firms and public research … institutions. We find that R&D spillovers may impede cooperation among firms or research institutions even when the cost of forming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051108
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The Rise of Risk-Based Pricing of Mortgage Interest Rates in Italy
Magri, Silvia - 2011
The paper assesses the extent to which mortgage rates in Italy are priced according to credit risk as proxied by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128110
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Modelling Italian Potential Output and the Output Gap
Bassanetti, Antonio - 2011
The aim of the paper is to estimate a reliable quarterly time-series of potential output for the Italian economy, exploiting four alternative approaches: a Bayesian unobserved component method, a univariate time-varying autoregressive model, a production function approach and a structural VAR....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128341
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Does Investing Abroad Reduce Domestic Activity? Evidence From Italian Manufacturing Firms
Bronzini, Raffaello - 2011
complements. We take advantage of a unique firm-level panel data set from the Bank of Italy Survey of Industrial and Service Firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128478
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The Effect of Age on Portfolio Choices : Evidence Form an Italian Pension Fund
Cappelletti, Giuseppe - 2011
Optimal Portfolio Theory prescribes that investors reduce their exposure to financial market risk as they get near to retirement. To assess the effect of ageing on portfolio choices, we study the case of an Italian defined contribution pension fund during the period 2002-08. We find that on...
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Labor Market Pooling : Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts
Di Addario, Sabrina Lucia - 2011
The paper provides an empirical investigation of the advantages accruing to workers in industrial clusters. Using a unique data set based on the Cluster Mapping Project of the Italian National Statistical Institute, we examine whether industry agglomeration leads to wage and labor mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131333
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Entrepreneurship and Market Size : The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy
Di Addario, Sabrina Lucia - 2011
We analyse empirically the effects of urbanization on Italian college graduates' work possibilities as entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that doubling the population density of the province of work reduces the chances of being an entrepreneur by 2-3 percentage points. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131337
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With a Little Help from Abroad : The Effect of Low-Skilled Immigration on the Female Labor Supply
Barone, Guglielmo - 2010
In this paper we examine whether and how the inflow of female immigrants who “specialize” in household production affects the labor supply of Italian women. To identify the causal effect, we exploit the family reunification motive and the network effects - i.e. the tendency of newly arriving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136540