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European Patent Office; (iv) the national registry of local politicians; and (v) detailed data on local elections in Italy. We …
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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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-employed individuals, we find robust evidence that women in Italy pay more for overdraft facilities than men. We could not find any …
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contribution of innovation in general to productivity growth is almost nil in Italy during this period …
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Both Research and Development (R&D) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) investment have been identified as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R&D and ICT investment at the firm level in an effort to...
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