The increasing degree of flexibility in the labour market, is revealed, in Italy, by the development of a new category of temporary workers, called parasubordinati. In order to identify and quantify this phenomenon, an empirical analysis, based on the data of the Italian Social Security...

The influence of product market competition on growth is re-considered by developing an extension of the basic Romerian model of horizontal innovation. We find that the relationship between competition and growth is inverse-U shaped, provided that the non-accumulable factor input is employed in...

In recent years sponsorship has become one of the most important promotion tools practiced by private companies. This paper develops the idea that sponsorship enters the production function as a kind of investment in immaterial capital, bringing the firm to a higher equilibrium level of...