Inventors and organizational assets are inputs of inventive activities which are often provided at a global scale, where countries might specialize in the provision of one or the other type of inputs. We introduce a new patent-based metric, the “inventor balance”, to quantify this type of...

Standard cross-national measures of corruption are assembled through surveys. We propose a novel alternative objective measure that consists of the difference between a measure of the physical quantities of public infrastructure and the cumulative price government pays for public capital stocks....

I address the issue of whether public infrastructure plays any role in determining factor productivity in the Italian regions. To this end, a new data set on Italian regional capital is used for the first time. The empirical analysis, carried out using panel data econometric techniques, leads to...

In this work I provide a summary view of the statistical information available on public works in Italy since its unification. Emphasis is placed on the regional disaggregation of the data. For the years after 1927 there exist regionally disaggregated data, while for the previous years I develop...

In this article, I extend the concept of separate cointegration to include the common-feature trend-cycle decomposition approach. This combined approach operates a reduction of the parameter space and permits the identification of the time series long- and short-run constituent factors. A...

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the long- and short-run correlations among saving, investment, and growth rates for 123 countries over the period 1961-94. Three results are robust across data sets and estimation methods: i) lagges saving rates are positively related to investment...

This paper discusses the extent and the determinants of the internationalization of European inventive activity, between 1990 and 2005, using an innovative method to treat the information contained in the European Patent Office's Patstat database. We introduce a new set of indicators measuring...