This paper aims to assess the profitability and employees' productivity of Italian innovative start-ups with a new composite index: the Start-ups Performance score (SP-score). In recent years, the Italian government has made several efforts to foster the economy, establishment, and growth of...

Building on the Upper Echelons Theory we investigate the impact of CEO future sightedness on corporate policies and firm performance. We capture CEOs future orientation through an unobtrusive, validated tool of linguistic analysis of textual characteristics expressed by CEOs during 2008-2012...

This paper aims to assess the profitability and employees’ productivity of Italian innovative start-ups with a new composite index: the Start-ups Performance score (SP-score). In recent years, the Italian government has made several efforts to foster the economy, establishment, and growth of...

Italian Abstract: Negli ultimi decenni le Amministrazioni italiane, ed in particolare gli enti locali e territoriali, hanno fatto largo ed ampio ricorso allo strumento delle società partecipate per la produzione e la erogazione dei servizi pubblici. Tali società in quanto largamene finanziate...

We build a new measure of investors’ attention around FOMC announcements by employing the Google Search Volume Index. Our measure shows that investors’ attention contributes and heightens the FOMC equity premium and reduces the volatility around the announcement. Although, we don’t claim...