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Using firm level data this study investigates the relation between export activity and firm’s profitability. The paper shows that, contrary to other performance indicators such as productivity, exporting activity is not systematically associated to higher firm’s profitability. This is shown...
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This paper provides a description of the production process by comparing different frameworks in which to analyze the relations between inputs and output. The analyses are performed on a representative sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We employ both parametric and non-parametric analysis....
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-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental … innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first phase of EU ETS has exerted some effects on environmental innovations by … instead to be weak: it drives innovation if we compare ETS and non ETS firms, but the stringency itself does not matter, due …
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the role of technology, cost and imported intermediate inputs. Our evidence suggests that innovation, in particular R …
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This paper investigates the empirical link between emission intensity and economic growth, using a very large data set of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance (efficiency) at firm level we exploit NAMEA sector for CO2,...
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