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Competitive strategies, heterogeneous demand sources and firms' growth trajectories

Caravella, Serenella; Crespi, Francesco; Guarascio, Dario; … - 2020

The present paper explores the demand-pull effect of distinct demand sources (i.e. households and retailers, other firms and public sector) on Italian companies' growth patterns. Data relies on the PEC (Indagine sulle Professioni e le Competenze) survey carried out by the Institute for Public...

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The footprint of evolutionary processes of learning and selection upon the statistical properties of industrial dynamics

Dosi, Giovanni; Pereira, Marcelo C.; Virgillito, Maria … - 2015

Evolutionary theories of economic change identify the processes of idiosyncratic learning by individual firms and of market selection as the two main drivers of the dynamics of industries. Are such processes able to robustly account for the statistical regularities which industrial structures...

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Technological paradigms, labour creation and destruction in a multi-sector agent-based model

Dosi, Giovanni; Pereira, Marcelo C.; Roventini, Andrea; … - 2021

This paper presents an agent-based model (ABM) of endogenous arrival of technological paradigms and new sectors entailing different patterns of labour creation and destruction, as well as of consumption dynamics. The model, building on the labour-augmented K+S ABM, addresses the long-term...

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Business cycles, technology and exports

Guarascio, Dario; Pianta, Mario; Lucchese, Matteo; … - 2015

relationships between innovation and international performance. While periods of upswing are characterised by a well documented … 'virtuous circle'. between innovation inputs, new products and export success, during downswings most of the positive … diversity of technological change allows to disentangle the specificities and effects of innovation inputs and outputs, and of …

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Persistence of innovation and patterns of firm growth

Guarascio, Dario; Tamagni, Federico - 2016

In this work we test if persistent innovators, defined according to different innovation activities (R&D, product and … process innovation, patenting) grow more than other firms, and if innovation persistence can contribute to explain the so far … definition of persistent innovators traditionally based on innovation surveys. Our findings, against the expectations, support …

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A North-South agent based model of segmented labour markets : the role of education and trade asymmetries

Fanti, Lucrezia; Pereira, Marcelo C.; Virgillito, Maria … - 2023

Drawing on the labour-augmented K+S agent-based model, this paper develops a two-country North-South ABM wherein the leader and the laggard country interact through the international trade of capital goods. The model aims to address sources of asymmetries and possible converge patterns between...

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The agents of industrial policy and the North-South convergence : state-owned enterprises in an international-trade macroeconomic ABM

Fanti, Lucrezia; Pereira, Marcelo C.; Virgillito, Maria … - 2024

How to conceive industrial policies as development instruments distinct from trade or fiscal-deduction interventions? How can we model and study the role of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as agents of industrial policy? How can we model their main attributes and architectures? Drawing on the...

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