This paper provides new empirical evidence on regional-national disparities in environmental efficiency, based on case studies of Italy and the Lazio region, which includes the city of Rome. Shift-share analyses provide evidence on the drivers of environmental efficiency and on sector...

We adopt a Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) of innovative activity to disentangle countries' patenting capacity from patenting efficiency. We analyze the determinants of innovative capacity of a set of 26 OECD countries plus China, over the period 1992-2007, to show if and how China's...