The hotel industry shows a wide dispersion of productive efficiency. The paper tries to isolate the exogenous determinants of the observedproductivity levels from factors related to corporate management. Among the exogenous determinants, demand conditions and the varying degree of attractiveness...

It is quite common that public policies take as benchmark mean values of relevant policy variables (average firm size, average productivity, average income, etc.). In such case the policy maker introduces incentives that should change individual behaviour in order to increase average values of...

This paper analyzes the trend of industrial productivity in Italy in the decade preceding the 2008 crisis and compares manufacturing sectors in North East regions with other areas of the country, using a large database of manufacturing firms. The Malmquist productivity growth index is calculated...