We investigate the determinants of TFP growth of Italian manufacturing firms. Using stochastic frontier techniques, we consider three approaches for taking into account the influence of external factors, i.e., the determinants or drivers of growth. First, in our novel approach external factors...

We carried out a survey among a large group of undergraduate students of different disciplines to test whether the study of economics influences students' view on profit maximization and the market mechanism. We find that there are significant differences between economics students and the...

<i> Un’analisi sulla desiderabilità dell’intervento pubblico: il caso della gestione delle aree naturali demaniali in Valtellina e Valcamonica </i> (di Federico C. Perali, Nicola Tommasi e Angelo Zago) - ABSTRACT: Il presente lavoro si inserisce in un progetto di ricerca, commissionato...

This article proposes a methodology to measure the characteristics of intermediate products when quality is multidimensional. It uses a general representation of the multioutput technology via directional distance functions and constructs quality indicators based on differences rather than...