A new matching method is proposed for the estimation of the average treatment effect of social policy interventions (e.g., training programs or health care measures. Given an outcome variable, a treatment and a set of pre-treatment covariates, the method is based on the examination of random...

We study firms' incentives to transfer knowledge about production technology to a rival in a Cournot duopoly. In a setting where two technologies are available, a technology is characterized by its associated cost function and no single technology is strictly superior to the other. A firm has...

Fractal image coding generally seeks to express an image as a union of spatially contracted and greyscale modified copies of subsets of itself. Generally,images are represented as functions u(x) and the fractal coding method is conducted in the framework of L^2 or L^1. Here we formulate a method...

Questa ricerca ha messo in luce alcuni aspetti importanti delle modalità di reperimento della mano d'opera qualificata di un campione non rappresentativo di imprese che operano sul mercato milanese. Si tratta principalmente di imprese medio-piccole che operano al servizio delle altre imprese,...

Drawing on the experience of Structural Funds, the paper argues that cohesion may be beneficial to growth under certain conditions. It develops some arguments based on recent economic theory and empirical evidence on the trade off between cohesion and growth and draws some lessons for future policy.

The main aim of this paper is to develop a qualitative and quantitative Benchmarking model for SMEs. The Benchmarking is a methodology base on a comparison among performances born in some international industrial groups to answer to the strong competitive dynamics on the 70s. This approach to a...

The paper deals firstly with the assessment of nonfinancial firm’s risk exposure which has been deeply affected in the last two decades by the trend of market globalization and increased competition. In this new scenario we can note the weakening of the traditional separation between risks...

La seconda indagine sull'inserimento nel mercato del lavoro dei laureati e diplomati dell'Università di Milano osserva la condizione e l'esperienza lavorativa di coloro che hanno conseguito il titolo universitario nel 1999, a tre anni dal conseguimento. attraverso l'analisi multivariata e le...