This paper contributes to the literature explaining firm-level heterogenenity in the extensive margin of trade, defined as the number of products exported by each firm. We develop a dynamic model where firms must invest in RD to maintain and increase their portfolio of goods: the process of...

Obiettivo del paper: L’obiettivo è comprendere l’influenza del ruolo della famiglia sul grado di internazionalizzazione di un’impresa già multinazionale, inteso come il rapporto tra il numero di addetti impiegati fuori dai confini nazionali e il numero di occupati...

This paper investigates the impact of firm RD policies sustaining RD investment and collaboration on company innovation performance. Individual and cooperative RD investments are considered as intermediate outcomes (inputù and behavioralù additionality, respectively) contributing to the final...

In recent years, spatial sampling has been the subject of a flourishing literature. Its use had become widespread due to the availability of topographical information about statistical units, especially in the environmental context. New algorithms enable us to take advantage of spatial locations...

The bilateral netting of mutual obligations is an institutional arrange- ment usually employed in payment systems to reduce settlement risks. In this paper we explore its advantages and pitfalls when applied to an inter- bank lending market, in which banks extend credit to nÃÉand borrow from...

The Chinese growth model has generated domestic imbalances and social problems. The Chinese leadership is aware of the urgency to address these problems and improve the quality of the growth process. Engineering a successful change (ensuring more even distribution of national income, as well as...

n the context of Choquet integration with respect to symmetric capacities, we consider the binomial decomposition of OWA functions in terms of the binomial Gini welfare functions Cj , j = 1, ..., n, and the associated binomial Gini inequality indices Gj , j = 1, ..., n, which provide two...

The presence of knowledge spillovers and shared human capital is at the heart of the Marhall-Arrow- Romer externalities hypothesis. Most of the earlier empirical contributions on knowledge externalities, however, considered data aggregated at a regional level so that conclusions are based on the...

This paper formulates a bio-economic model that specifies the sequentiality of allocative choice on a migratory beekeeping farm in discrete form. It is assumed that the modeled farm operates in conditions of certainty and, allocating an apiary to forage sites, produces only two marketable...

Why did some countries in the Euro Zone between 2010 and 2012 - until the European Central Bank stepped in - experience a dramatic vicious circle between hard austerity plans and rising default risk premia? Were such plans too small, and hence non credible, or too large, and hence non...