This paper presents a comprehensive logical framework for designing ex-post evaluation of corporate R&D and innovation (RDI) policies, which logically connects: actors' behaviour, indicators, ex-post (counterfactual) evaluation and ex-ante prediction of firm (R&D) additionality potential. The...

This paper explores the impact of a specific R&D policy instrument, the Italian <roman>Fondo per le Agevolazioni della Ricerca</roman> (FAR), on industrial R&D and technological output at the firm level. Our objective is threefold: first, to identify the presence or absence of private R&D investment...

This study explores the impact of “technological capabilities” (TCs) on invention (measured by “patenting intensity”) in a dataset of 42 emerging and advanced countries observed over 13years (1995–2007). By computing country responsiveness scores we are able to: (i) rank countries...

Reweighting is a popular statistical technique to deal with inference in the presence of a nonrandom sample, and various reweighting estimators have been proposed in the literature. This article presents the user-written command treatrew, which implements reweighting on the propensity-score...

In this article, I present ivtreatreg, a command for fitting four different binary treatment models with and without heterogeneous average treatment effects under selection-on-unobservables (that is, treatment endogeneity). Depending on the model specified by the user, ivtreatreg provides...

This work presents a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Italy including, for the first time, an economic account of the non-profit sector. The year it refers to is 1999. Once provided a statistical definition of the non-profit sector and how I include it in the framework, I then go on to set out...