This paper evaluates the performance of Italian local public enterprises (LPEs) with respect to their private sector counterparts. We address the following questions: i) do LPEs perform worse than (comparable) private firms?; ii) does the performance gap depend on the ownership structure (the...

There is a wide range of literature on the theory of firm growth with contradictory results. However, hardly any studies touch the determinants of firm growth taking Swiss listed firms into consideration. For this purpose we apply a pooled and fixed effects panel regression to a set of firm...