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When did modernization begin? Italy's industrial growth reconsidered in light of new value-added series, 1911–1951

Felice, Emanuele; Carreras, Albert - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 4, pp. 443-460

The article reconsiders the growth of Italian industry from the First World War to the eve of the economic miracle, with the aid of sector-specific new value-added series, at three different price-bases. The new estimates reduce growth during the First World War, making the Italian case...

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The Italian Position in the Energy and Climate Change Negotiations

Viviani, Carlo - 2011

Climate change, security and cost of energy supplies, and the competitiveness of firms and economies have been focal points of the general political and economic policy debate in recent years. This article examines the choices in this field made at global level with the Kyoto Protocol and in...

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Closing the Productivity Gap with the US : Causes and Consequences of the Productivity Program in Western Europe

Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

, Germany, and Italian participating firms, I first document that these companies claimed between 5 and 10% yearly productivity …

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Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development : The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy

Bianchi, Nicola - 2019

The Marshall Plan (1948–1952) was the largest aid transfer in history. This paper estimates its effects on Italy's postwar local economic development. It exploits plausibly exogenous differences between Italian provinces in the value of reconstruction grants they received. Provinces that could...

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Credit, Bonds, Stocks and Growth in Seven Large Economies

Fink, Gerhard; Haiss, Peter R.; Hristoforova, Sirma - 2007

the aggregate bond market development and economic growth in the USA, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, France and the … supported in all countries except for Germany. The demand-leading hypothesis that economic development pulls the development of … the financial markets is supported only for Germany. A feedback between domestic credits and output is found in Japan …

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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level : empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries

Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...

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Innovation, creative destruction and structural change : firm-level evidence from European Countries

Dachs, Bernhard; Hud, Martin; Köhler, Christian; … - 2016

The shift of employment from lower to higher productive firms is an important driver for structural change and industry dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by product innovation may be offset by employment...

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Employment changes in environmentally innovative firms

Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions induced by environmental innovations. On the basis of the parameter estimates of the Multinomial Logit and of several Multinomial Probit Models, we show that we have to distinguish between the factors that have an impact on employment...

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Do KIBS make manufacturing more innovative? : an empirical investigation for four European countries

Ciriaci, Daria; Montresor, Sandro; De Palma, Daniela - 2013

- France, Germany, Italy and the UK - spanning from the mid-90s to the mid-00s. The more innovative sectors are actually those …

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Are ICT displacing workers? : evidence from seven European countries

Pantea, Smaranda; Biagi, Federico; Sabadash, Anna - 2014

This paper examines whether ICT substitute labour and reduce the demand for labour. We used firm-level comparable data separately for firms in manufacturing, services and ICT-producing sectors from seven European countries. We adopted a common methodology and applied it to a unique dataset...

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