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The effects of university rules on spinoff creation: The case of academia in Italy
In: Research Policy, Band 45, Heft 7, S. 1386-1396
Does government funding complement or substitute private research funding to universities?
In: Research Policy, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 63-75
The effects of universities' proximity to industrial districts on university–industry collaboration
In: China economic review, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 639-650
ISSN: 1043-951X
Rule of law as a determinant of the export performance of Italian provinces
In: Journal of institutional economics, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 548-563
ISSN: 1744-1382
AbstractOur article presents an empirical investigation of the relationship between the export performance of Italian provinces and the quality of their local institutions, specifically the rule of law, over the period 2004–2016. According to the results obtained by different econometric approaches (OLS, FE, SYS-GMM), in general a secure and well-defined legal framework – by reducing transaction costs and uncertainty, facilitating capital accumulation and an increase in the firms' scale of production – is associated with better export performance. Interestingly, when the analysis is replicated at the level of the Italian macro-areas (North, Centre and South), the results indicate that the rule of law has a statistically significant and positive association with export performance only in northern provinces, thus suggesting that the effectiveness of this institutional dimension might depend on the level of development of the socioeconomic and institutional features at the local level, i.e. only when a set of suitable economic incentive mechanisms are already in place.
Structural change and the sustainability of regional convergence: Evidence from the Italian regions
In: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 289-311
ISSN: 2399-6552
Empirical studies on economic convergence have typically paid poor attention to the role played by the structural characteristics of the economy. Using OECD data for the period 1995–2007, the relationship between structural change and the convergence process of the Italian regions is analysed by integrating two approaches. A modified version of shift-and-share analysis is first used in order to break the average growth rate of labour productivity into its infra-sectoral and structural components. The existence of a relationship between the components of the growth rate and the presence of regional convergence is then assessed econometrically. Unlike in most studies reported in the literature, the regression coefficient is broken up in two separate parts to assess how much of the observed regional growth can be referred to the infra-sectoral and the structural components. The empirical results confirm the existence of a (slow) convergence, but also that only structural change has played a statistically significant support role. The regional disparities are, in most cases, unchanged or even worsened when the infra-sectoral productivity growth is considered. In terms of policy implications, strong emphasis must remain on sectoral policies: 'place-based' and 'sectoral smart specialisation' policies are crucial for the convergence process to be sustainable in the long term.
Are mobile and fixed broadband substitutes or complements? New empirical evidence from Italy and implications for the digital divide policies
In: Socio-economic planning sciences: the international journal of public sector decision-making, Band 71, S. 100823
ISSN: 0038-0121
An assessment of the role of cultural capital on sustainable mobility behaviours: Conceptual framework and empirical evidence
In: Socio-economic planning sciences: the international journal of public sector decision-making, Band 66, S. 24-34
ISSN: 0038-0121