This paper analyses the Italian industrial dynamics, both at the sectorial and at the corporate level. It also examines the evolution of particular firms or projects, determining what different experiences have in common, in order to draw general conclusions on the performances of the Italian...

This paper represents the outcome of a seminar training experiment. During the class of private comparative law held for the graduate courses 2009/2010 some students participated to a seminar organized with the support of "Windows Live" social network granted by LIUC University. By means of this...

We study the effects of ownership and complementarity on the performance of bilateral contracts (M&A, Minority Stake purchase and Joint Venture). We derive profitability conditions based on how a contract changes the asset control between partners and how this affects their position against...

We study the effects of service offshoring on the wages of Italian workers. To this purpose, we build up a novel data set combining information from two different sources: (1) matched employer-employee data based on administrative records from the Italian National Social Security Institute; and...

The great financial crisis started in 2007 in the Western world has spread its bad effects to the economies of many countries and is still generating serious social problems, particularly in Europe. The globalization of markets and a financial system increasingly self-regulated are now bringing...

The process of geographic agglomeration of firms is explained in the economic literature with regard to at least two different views: the traditional frameworks relate to the existence of “external economies” or “agglomeration economies” in explaining the clustering of firms in a...

Comprehension of the phenomenon of ‘waste’ in the global arena in general, and as an issue of international cooperation in particular, needs to be analyzed from many different perspectives. The current work is a modest contribution from the interdisciplinary perspective of anthropology and...

We investigate the role and impact of exposure to brands in consumers’ evaluations of lager beers, and explore its relation with exposure to intrinsic information. The first objective is to study the ability of young consumers to identify their preferred beer. The second is to explore the role...