This Special Issue of Economia e Politica Industriale/Journal of Industrial and Business Economics seeks to shed light on the reasons for the economic and industrial gap between Germany and Italy based on the discussions of five research papers. The contributions compare the microeconomic...

Manufacturing exhibits nonlinear trends in production levels, one being an active state and the other a passive state. We use a Markov model to estimate these two states, which are tied to United States imports of Mexican products. A regression is made in order to estimate whether there is an...

We test two questions: (i) Is the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) more parsimonious than Akaike Information Criterion (AIC)? and (ii) Is BIC better than AIC for forecasting purposes? By using simulated data, we provide statistical inference of both hypotheses individually and then jointly...

Even as a number of developing countries have been able to reap the export opportunities presented by the rise of global value chains (GVCs), Nepal's export performance remains dismal. This paper examines the challenges and constraints faced by manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises...

Even as a number of developing countries have been able to reap the export opportunities presented by the rise of global value chains (GVCs), Nepal's export performance remains dismal. This paper examines the challenges and constraints faced by manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises...

Korea’s industrial robot sector is now the world’s fifth-largest, aided by systematic and consistentgovernment policy over the past decade. It is still heavily reliant on imports for key parts however,and the industry is fragmented, consisting of many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in...

This paper takes the spectrum approach to identify possible industrial and enterprise insolvency and goes on to conduct a composite analysis of both the potential industry insolvency spectrum and enterprise insolvency spectrum. Recently, the proportion of industries and enterprises showing signs...

This report examines the place of China’s automobile industry in the global market and analyzes the recent, rapid increase in Chinese automobile exports. In addition, the implications carried by the rise of Chinese auto exports for the Korean automobile industry are identified and analyzed

Radical changes in economic geography driven by "global" trends led entrepreneurs to greatly vary the business choices made in the 2000-2006 period. The purpose of this study is to analyse the "micro" factors that have had a more profound impact on entrepreneurial behaviour and the different...

Il lavoro intende approfondire un’innovativa modalità di aggregazione: il Contratto di rete. Dopo aver fatto un breve cenno alle principali tappe normative, si fornisce una fotografia quantitativa dello strumento. Successivamente, la ricerca presenta i risultati di un’indagine qualitativa...