Italian Abstract: Comnciando dal classico paradosso di Cournot viene mostrato quanto siano errate le ipotesi per giustificare una fusione. Viene poi calcolato il risultato di una fusione che lasci nel breve periodo costante la quota di mercato dell'impresa che non partecipa alla fusione e...

Italian Abstract: Considero le implicazioni sul welfare delle imprese e dei consumatori della la maggior parte delle combinazioni di integrazioni orizzontali e verticali su una filiera in due segmenti in cui ogni segmento possa avere monopolio o oligopolio, bene omogeneo o differenziato,...

The paper argues that the shape of the long-run size distribution of business firms is basically determined by the availability of organisational capabilities, and that its changes over time (the "direction" of change) depend on the way in which (exogenous) "environmental" conditions affect...

During the past decade all industrial countries attracted sizeable inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), excluding Italy and Japan: this fact has been interpreted as evidencing a deterioration in Italy�s structural competitiveness. This paper presents the results of a survey conducted...

The new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) represent an important challenge for SME. Especially in the context of local productive areas, this topic may be relevant as a new opportunity of competitiveness for the system as a whole. In this working paper, the focus is on the...

Following the growing interest towards the role of the knowledge in the modern economies the economic literature has focused a lot of studies into the role of the producers of new knowledge, e.g. universities and public research institutions. The relations between these bodies and the firms, the...

The Italian and European regulatory framework for patents would benefit from further improvements in order to foster dynamic competition between Italian firms. At the national level the exclusive allocation of the right to patent inventions to universities, rather than to researchers, would...

This paper will discuss two fundamental concepts of industrial policy devel-oped by Sebastiano Brusco: the role of real services to support district firms and the role of real services needed to transform groups of isolated firms into systems of firms; and the promotion of widespread changes at...