' industrial sectors. This is particularly true for Italy where labour-intensive, low-technology production represents a large … find that this is indeed the case. Comparing China's share of world exports to Italy with China's total world export market …

markets and manufacturing workers. Our analysis shows that Italy’s local labour markets, which were more exposed to Chinese …

success from firm surveys along with the usual R&D expenditures and productivity measures. We then apply the model to data on … firm’s productivity, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive …

test the foreign ownership premium by comparing our sample of firms based in Italy and owned by a foreign subject with a …

We investigate the productivity effects of eco-innovations at the firm level using a modified version of the CDM model … intervention to create market opportunities, is likely to affect the way they are pursued and their effect on productivity. The … balance sheet information. When looking at innovation's return on productivity, we observe that eco-innovations exhibit a …

This paper assesses the effects of public capital in Italy on the main macroeconomic aggregates: GDP, private capital … Italy, albeit to differing extents. In particular, a higher elasticity of GDP to public capital is estimated for the South …, whereas marginal productivity turns out to be higher in the Centre-North. This suggests that public capital has a lower …

directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state … activities have affected banks' productivity in the period 1994-2004, differentiating between technical change, efficiency change … and scale economies. We find that privatized banks experienced a significant increase in productivity, especially if they …

include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We …