In this paper, we study the so-called “wrong skewness” anomaly in Stochastic Frontiers (SF), which consists in the observed difference between the expected and estimated sign of the asymmetry of the composite error. We propose a more general and flexible specification of the SF model,...

The empirical literature on trade imbalances does not make currency tensions easy to understand, because tensions across traders originate from the assumption that export-price elasticity is high. This paper provides new evidence by analysing the export-behaviour of China, France, Germany,...

Are Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Research & Development (R&D) productive inputs or efficiency determinants? This is the topic of this paper which analyses a sample of 2691 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2007-2009. The empirical setting is based on a production...

This paper utilizes the Efige data (2007-2009) to identify the determinants of university-industry cooperation in five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK). We use a probit model for firm level data which incorporates variables of innovation activities and traditional...

State- and Wealth-dependence of individual risk preferences are investigated using Italian panel data. To elicit risk aversion, a social security policy reform occurred in Italy in 2008 is exploited. This law asks private sector employees to invest their accruing severance pay in three...

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the effect of early school entry on educational outcomes using standardized test score data on Italian pupils. The empirical procedure is designed to disentangle the effect of regular entry (Gift of Time) from possible unobserved confounding...

This paper analyzes the process driving graduate workers in undergraduate jobs. Micro and macro perspectives are considered so that the interrelationships between individual mismatch and over-education at the aggregate level are analyzed. The theoretical model highlights that individual mismatch...

This study aims at investigating whether wage of workers entering positions entitled to employment protection may be affected by the introduction of a two-tier labor market regime. By using repeated cross-sections microdata, we apply difference-in-differences estimators - also combined with...

Il seguente lavoro è un appendice su quello pubblicato in “Dike kai nomos” Quaderni di cultura politico-giuridica” Anno 2 - N.5 - Ottobre 2013-Marzo 2014, pagina 35-54

The interest for the measurement of well-being has been increasing among scholars and major international institutions. This paper proposes a synthetic index for ten dimensions of well-being combining a set of 57 variables at the Italian regional level and an overall indicator of well-being by...