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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2007

The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … performance. The complementarity with networking is a consequential step. Networking by itself cannot thus play a role in … networking are to be sustained and favoured. our evidence suggests that R&D may be a single main driver of performance. Since R …

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Market power, productivity and the EU single market program: An ex-post assessment on Italian firm level data

Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 1998

This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact the EU Single Market Program has exerted on market power and total factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood of being affected by the removal of non-tariff...

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Cooperation in R&D and sample selection

Piga, Claudio; Vivarelli, Marco - 2002

This study explicitly takes into account that the decision to enter into a cooperative R&D relationship is related to the antecedent decision to carry out R&D. This calls for a methodological approach that, at the same time, allows the joint analysis of the determinants of the two decisions and...

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Solar Grid Parity Dynamics in Italy: A Real Option Approach

Biondi, Tommaso; Moretto, Michele - 2013

Over the past three years Italy has witnessed a rapid growth in the photovoltaic energy market, followed by an equally sudden decline when the government decided to reduce the incentives. This sharp change in the trend of the market calls into question the achievement of Grid Parity and the...

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Access to Modern Energy: a Review of Barriers, Drivers and Impacts

Bonan, Jacopo; Pareglio, Stefano; Tavoni, Massimo - 2016

Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has been recognized as a fundamental challenge for development. Despite strong praise for action and the deployment of large-scale electrification programs and improved cookstove (ICS)...

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Access to Modern Energy: a Review of Impact Evaluations

Bonan, Jacopo; Pareglio, Stefano; Tavoni, Massimo - 2014

Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has been recognized as fundamental challenge for development and is likely to be included in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Despite a strong praise for action and several...

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Avenues of technology transfer: Foreign investment and productivity change in the Czech Republic

Djankov, Simeon; Hoekman, Bernard Marco - 1998

correlated with domestic firm performance, while imports are found to have a significant positive effect on TFP growth of such … firms. We conclude that trade (imports) appears to have played an important role as a channel for improved performance of …

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Wage Inequalities and Low Pay: The Role of Labour Market Institutions

Lucifora, Claudio - 1999

In this study, we investigate the role that some institutional features play in shaping the distribution of wages across a number of OECD countries. While considerable attention has been devoted in recent years to the evolution of earnings inequality and to the analysis of the competing...

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Inside the black box: Labour market institutions, wage formation and unemployment in Italy

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio - 2000

This study provides an assessment of the features that, operating "inside the black box", shape the evolution of the Italian economy. In the first section the focus is placed on the functioning of the labour market at the aggregate level. The picture described suggest that the Italian labour...

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The Strategic Use of Abatement by a Polluting Monopoly

Martín-Herrán, Guiomar; Rubio, Santiago J. - 2016

This paper evaluates the effects of the lack of regulatory commitment on emission tax applied by the regulator, abatement effort made by the monopoly and social welfare comparing two alternative policy games. The first game assumes that the regulator commits to an ex-ante level of the emission...

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