. However Italy’s potential growth of output and productivity is dragged by its quite anomalous industrial structure and …Despite a declining trend in its world export market share since the beginning of the 90s, Italy is still today the …-tech industries. Italy’s remarkable competitive advantages in top quality traditional consumer goods (personal care, housing) and in …

international competitiveness (productivity, innovation and clusters) and traces their impact on it. The main argument of this paper …

mainly from Total Factor Productivity (TFP), while labour productivity has been increasing and capital productivity has been …

competitiveness is potentially misleading. The focus should, instead, be on productivity. Industrial policies, while potentially valid …

This paper uses comparable firm level data from France, Italy and Spain to test a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER …-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … productivity. …

productivity of individual airports along the time. The results show that Genoa, Rome, Naples, Bergamo and Bologna exhibit the best …

groups by cluster analysis and then measure their performance ratios. We evaluate the groups' efficiency and productivity by … the highest efficiency and productivity scores. Most MBs pursue strategies linked with 'conservative policies', which are …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with …