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Productivity Effects of Eco-Innovations Using Data on Eco-Patents
Marin, Giovanni - 2016
We investigate the productivity effects of eco-innovations at the firm level using a modified version of the CDM model (Crepon et al., 1998). The distinctive nature of environmental innovations, especially as regards the need for government intervention to create market opportunities, is likely...
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Quality Upgrading of Italian Manufactures : Evidence from Firms’ Prices and Strategies
Di Giacinto, Valter - 2011
the Bank of Italy's survey of manufacturers, measures a crucial aspect of the transformation, namely quality upgrading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124768
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Evidence on the Impact of R&D and ICT Investment on Innovation and Productivity in Italian Firms
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2013
The paper investigates R&D and ICT investment at firm level, assessing their relative importance and the extent to which they are complements or substitutes. We use data on a large unbalanced panel sample from four consecutive waves of a survey of Italian manufacturing firms, together with a...
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Industry Dynamics and Competition from Low-Wage Countries : Evidence on Italy
Federico, Stefano - 2012
differentiated sectors. There is also evidence of significant effects of low-wage competition through inter-industry linkages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098958
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Recent Trends in Economic Activity and TFP in Italy With a Focus on Embodied Technical Progress
Mistretta, Alessandro - 2019
only considering manufacturing. These findings shed a somewhat more positive light on future TFP developments in Italy …
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The Internationalization of Italian Production and Industrial Districts : An Analysis of Investment
Federico, Stefano - 2006
to the literature on industrial districts, the results help understanding why Italy's FDI on GDP ratio is lower than in …
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Innovation and Productivity in SMEs - Empirical Evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - 2013
Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation success from firm surveys along with the usual R&D...
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Does Issuing Equities Help R&D Activity? Evidence from Unlisted Italian High-Tech Manufacturing Firms
Magri, Silvia - 2015
This paper evaluates the causal effect of issuing equities on the probability that a firm will engage in R&D activity. Equity is a preferable source of external finance for innovation than debt. It does not require collateral, does not exacerbate moral hazard problems connected with the...
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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 Producer Service Sector in Italy : Long-Term Growth and its Local Determinants
Di Giacinto, Valter; Micucci, Giacinto - 2007
This paper analyzes the local determinants of producer service growth in Italy, focusing on agglomeration economies … scope of externalities is extended to include possible interactions across different urban areas. Our main findings are the … following. Long-run employment growth is positively affected by Marshall-Arrow-Romer externalities, with a minor role played by …
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