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The effectiveness of R&D support in Italy. Some evidence from matching methods
Aiello, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this study several matching procedures have been used to evaluate the impact of public R&D support received by Italian manufacturing firms over the three-year period 2004-2006. Data are from the Capitalia-UniCredit survey and estimations refer to a sample of 605 treated firms untreated are...
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Firm heterogeneity in TFP, sectoral innovation and geography. Evidence from Italy
Aiello, Francesco; Pupo, Valeria; Ricotta, Fernanda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Sectoral and territorial specificities affect the firm’s capabilities of being productive. While there is a wide consensus on this, a quantitative measure of the these effects has been lacking. To this end, we combine a dataset of Italian firms with some meso regional and sectoral variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260844
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Explaining TFP at firm level in Italy. Does location matter?
Aiello, Francesco; Pupo, Valeria; Ricotta, Fernand - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study considers how firms’ internal variables and regional factors affect the total factor productivity of Italian manufacturing firms. Due to of the hierarchical structure of data in estimation, we employ a multilevel model. Results, which refer to 2006, show the importance of...
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On the Sources of Heterogeneity in Banking Efficiency Literature
Aiello, Francesco; Bonanno, Graziella - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
One learns two main lessons from studying the great quantity of banking efficiency literature. These lessons regard the … perform a Meta-Regression-Analysis (MRA) by examining 1,661 efficiency scores retrieved from 120 papers published over the … lower levels of banking efficiency than nonparametric studies. This holds true even after controlling for the approach used …
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Being efficient to stay strong in a weak economy. The case of calabrian manufacturing firms
Aiello, Francesco; Castiglione, Concetta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The aim of this work is to study the efficiency of firms operating in Calabria, a small and economically … manufacturing firms which are observed over the 1998-2006 period. Results show that the efficiency score is, on average, about 60 …%. A declining trend is observed over the last three-year period, 2004-2006. Moreover, firm efficiency increases with firm …
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