In this paper we study the structural robustness of Italian business system, using Covid-19 pandemic as an exogenous event to test it. To this aim, we use the ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristics) methodology, quite new for Economics, to classify Italian firms according to their economic...

The paper studies the structural robustness of Italian business system, using Covid-19 pandemic as an exogenous event to test it. The Receiver Operating Characteristics methodology, quite new for Economics, is used to classify firms based on their structural and behavioral characteristics....

This paper is meant to address the status of the Italian productive system in the wake of the most severe crisis economies are facing since WWII. In order to accomplish the latter task we rely on the combination of two high quality level dataset informing about so called firm behavioural traits:...