The National Fund for Innovation is a public policy instrument that is showing a significant capacity in supporting Italian Smes. It is also functional to stimulate the activation of virtuous circles in local economies, but with different effects in the various geographical areas. In particular,...

The paper examines the main factors that affect the incentive to cooperate in R&D, inquiring into the effects of cooperation on incentives to innovate in both a complete and an incomplete contract framework. It considers several forms of cooperative agreements and studies the circumstances that...

In this paper, we seek to empirically assess which determinants of the capability and incentives of banks to screen and monitor firms are significant in explaining credit rationing to Italian SMEs. After testing for the presence of non-random selection bias and the potential endogeneity of some...

The advanced countries are now going through the worst crisis since the Depression, but today's dominant current theories and econometric models proved unable to predict the crisis. The paper investigates whether the financial instability hypothesis of Hyman P. Minsky offers a better...

Il lavoro si propone di ricostruire la teoria dell’instabilità finanziaria del capitalismo di Hyman Minsky e di valutare la sua rilevanza nella spiegazione della crisi attuale. La prima parte del lavoro è dedicata alla ricostruzione del pensiero di Minsky. Partendo da una descrizione del...