Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of
innovation activity do not capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of …

The years since the global financial crisis have seen something of a renaissance in the
manufacturing industry. The United States has launched its Advanced Manufacturing …

Why has European growth slowed down since the 1990s while American productivity growth
has speeded up? This book provides a thorough and detailed analysis of the sources of …

Italy's aggregate productivity abruptly stopped growing in the mid-1990s. This stop
represents a puzzle, as it occurred at a time of stable macroeconomic conditions. In this …

Since the second half of the 1990s the Italian economy has experienced a significant
slowdown in the rate of economic growth. The “dwarfism” of its manufacturing firms, their …

This article analyses the “Jobs Act”—the last structural reform implemented in Italy—framing
it within the labour market reform process starting in 1997. Taking advantage of different …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the Italian total factor productivity (TFP) growth
for the 1995-2012 period that takes into account the factors explaining cross-regional …

This study analyses how firms' internal variables and regional factors affect total factor
productivity (TFP) of Italian manufacturing firms. Due to the hierarchical structure of our data …

The economic decline of Italy between the mid-1990s and the outset of the financial crisis is
a critical case in European political economy because its model of capitalism was deeply …

Law 183 of 2014, evocatively named the" Jobs Act", has determined a deep change in the
Italian industrial relations. Bringing at completion a reform process begun in the 1990s, the …