The paper argues that the shape of the long-run size distribution of business firms is basically determined by the availability of organisational capabilities, and that its changes over time (the "direction" of change) depend on the way in which (exogenous) "environmental" conditions affect...

Italian Abstract: Considero le implicazioni sul welfare delle imprese e dei consumatori della la maggior parte delle combinazioni di integrazioni orizzontali e verticali su una filiera in due segmenti in cui ogni segmento possa avere monopolio o oligopolio, bene omogeneo o differenziato,...

Italian Abstract: Comnciando dal classico paradosso di Cournot viene mostrato quanto siano errate le ipotesi per giustificare una fusione. Viene poi calcolato il risultato di una fusione che lasci nel breve periodo costante la quota di mercato dell'impresa che non partecipa alla fusione e...

The new information and communication technologies represent both an important challenge and an opportunity for small and medium enterprises. In case of the industrial districts, low-price technologies, easy to implement and flexible to use could give a new impulse to the competitiveness of...

The new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) represent an important challenge for SME. Especially in the context of local productive areas, this topic may be relevant as a new opportunity of competitiveness for the system as a whole. In this working paper, the focus is on the...

Despite successive reforms, public procurement in Italy is still highly fragmented and vulnerable to collusion, corruption and ex-post renegotiation. Other defects are found in the planning stages of the works. These problems are due in part to the regulations on the awarding of public works...

Il lavoro ha per oggetto l’evoluzione del modello di divisione del lavoro fra le imprese nell’industria italiana negli anni ’90. Utilizziamo i dati della “Indagine sulle imprese manifatturiere” condotta periodicamente da Capitalia, che fanno riferimento rispettivamente ai trienni...

During the past decade all industrial countries attracted sizeable inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), excluding Italy and Japan: this fact has been interpreted as evidencing a deterioration in Italy�s structural competitiveness. This paper presents the results of a survey conducted...

The recent literature on the productivity gains due to the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) has stressed the importance of the complementarities between ICT and organizational change. The ICT enable to process and diffuse a large amount of information. The reduction...

Italian Abstract: Il classico problema di ottimizzazione del profitto di un'impresa in monopolio viene trattato in relazione ai rendimenti di scala. Da ciò scaturiscono naturalmente le implicazioni sul break-even point, sull'inadeguatezza del marginal pricing nei casi monopolio naturale, sui...