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Environmentally-oriented innovative strategies and firm performances in services: Micro-evidence from Italy

Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - 2007

with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995 CIS II data on firm innovation strategic motivations and 1995-1998 data on … model in which the covariates include firm strategies (innovation and environmental), and a set of other explanatory … negative impact from environmental innovation strategy, implying either a short-medium effect, possibly balanced in the long …

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Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - 1999

The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country's economic growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence in favor of an inverted-U...

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Survey of the Literature

Borghesi, Simone - 1999

In the last few years, several studies have found an inverted-U relationship between per capita income and environmental degradation. This relationship, known as the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), suggests that environmental degradation increases in the early stages of growth, but it...

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On the Robustness of Robustness Checks of the Environmental Kuznets Curve

Galeotti, Marzio; Manera, Matteo; Lanza, Alessandro - 2006

Since its first inception in the debate on the relationship between environment and growth in 1992, the Environmental Kuznets Curve has been subject to continuous and intense scrutiny. The literature can be roughly divided in two historical phases. Initially, after the seminal contributions,...

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Cooperation in R&D and sample selection

Piga, Claudio; Vivarelli, Marco - 2002

This study explicitly takes into account that the decision to enter into a cooperative R&D relationship is related to the antecedent decision to carry out R&D. This calls for a methodological approach that, at the same time, allows the joint analysis of the determinants of the two decisions and...

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Market power, productivity and the EU single market program: An ex-post assessment on Italian firm level data

Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 1998

This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact the EU Single Market Program has exerted on market power and total factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood of being affected by the removal of non-tariff...

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Natural Resources, Innovation, and Growth

Papyrakis, Elissaios; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2004

This paper investigates the connection between resource abundance and innovation, as a transmission mechanism that can …, consumers trade off leisure versus consumption, and firms trade off innovation efforts versus manufacturing. For this model, we … indirectly by inducing a smaller proportion of the labor force to engage in innovation. …

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Spatial development

Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2010

We present a theory of spatial development. A continuum of locations in a geographic area choose each period how much to innovate (if at all) in manufacturing and services. Locations can trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is an...

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Knowing the right person in the right place: Political connections and economic growth

Bellettini, Giorgio; Ceroni, Carlotta Berti; Prarolo, … - 2009

low-quality producers to defend their monopoly position and prevent innovation and entry of high-quality competitors … politician secures re-election by setting high bureaucratic costs and firms invest in network blocking innovation and entry …

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Production Outsourcing, Organizational Governance and Firms Technological Performance: Evidence from Italy

Antonietti, Roberto; Cainelli, Giulio - 2007

the optimal organizational governance perform less well in terms of process innovation than more aligned competitors, but … (ii) that misalignment has a positive effect on product innovation. However, this counterintuitive result is strongly …

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