***Europe has witnessed a considerable labour productivity slowdown in recent decades. Many potential explanations have been proposed to address this productivity ‘puzzle’. However, how the quality of local institutions influences labour productivity has been overlooked by the literature.In this
The Accounting Research Groups at the Free University of Bolzano and at the University of Padova are pleased to announce the fourth edition of the Accounting Summer Camp. Due to the current and foreseeable evolution of the pandemic, the event will be hosted online on July 6-9, 2021. The event will
Rising political skepticism on the benefits of global economic integration has increased public scrutiny of the foreign activities of domestic firms in virtually all advanced economies. Decisions to invest in new activities abroad are seen by some commentators as potentially detrimental to domestic
In this paper, published in Environmental and Resource Economics, Filippo Beltrami (Department of Economics, University of Verona), Fulvio Fontini (Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova ), Monica Giulietti (School of Business and Economics, University of Loughborough)
In this paper, published in Economic Geography, Roberto Antonietti from the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova and Sandro Montresor from the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), propose a new approach to regional diversification that, going beyond relatedness,
