This paper analyses the empirical literature which tests the hypothesis that imports (or potential imports) may increase domestic competition. Most of studies analysed, including those conducted on industrialised countries and more recent contributions on less developed countries, confirm the...

Theoretical literature suggests that firms’ financial structure affects their real decisions because of capital markets imperfections. Several empirical studies have been conducted to test this hypothesis. This survey illustrates the main results of this literature focusing on the effects of...

In this paper we look at both the theoretical and empirical behavior of price-cost margins when capital market imperfections affect firms’ markup policies. We present a model of a firm operating in an industry with differentiated products and facing imperfect markets for financing operations....

Carrying out a marketing operation on a territory means to define the conceptual instruments and acts in order to connect the demand of the territory to its offer; such action has the function to define a geographic area in relation to the expectations and the needs expressed by the demand, both...

The innovation is a main variable of the economic growth, but the origin and diffusion of innovations are functions of several variables. For this reason, the contributions of other disciplines have been used to understand in depth its behaviour and spatial-temporal dynamic. The aim of this...

This work has been carried out to describe the recent strong development concerning the on line and off line multimedia market, the causes of its development and whether it can be the driving force behind other sectors. The analysis focuses on factors that can slow down or impede further...

Due aspetti molto importanti del processo di privatizzazione sono la scelta della tecnica di collocamento e quella dell’assetto proprietario da dare all’azienda dismessa. La soluzione ad ognuno di questi due problemi risulta legata da un lato agli obiettivi di policy, dall’altro a...

In Italy the examples of evaluation of local policy for innovation are very few. As an impact assessment is possible only if the number of centres to examine is little, this analysis has chosen a monitoring evaluation and, particularly, the reorganization of the matter regarding innovation...

In this paper the measure of corporate coherence proposed by Teece, Rumelt, Dosi and Winter (1994) and the measure of inter-industry relatedness on which the former is built are analysed using a dataset that includes the five largest European producers in 100 3-digit NACE industries. The...