Director tenure is a topic of great interest in the corporate governance debate. Despite the burgeoning interest, there is lack of consensus on the mechanisms shaping directors' contributions over time. Natalie Elms from Queensland University of Technology and Amedeo Pugliese from the Department of
Mafia firms introduce distortions in the markets in which they operate, increasing the cost of doing business for peer firms. Using a sample of Italian anti-Mafia police actions that resulted in the removal of Mafia firms, the authors find that peers reduce their tax avoidance following these anti
In this paper the authors, Giovanni Pellegrino, Efrem Castelnuovo and Giovanni Caggiano from the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova document the large response of real activity to a financial uncertainty shock during and in the aftermath of the great recession. They
The recent publication of Claudia Cozzio (Free University of Bolzano) and Andrea Furlan (Department of Economics and Management, University of Padova) aims to investigate the impact of the innovative ritual-based redesign of a routine in the challenging context of the dining-out sector,
Published in Small Business Economics Authors:Thomas Bassetti | DSEA University of PaduaLorenzo Dal Maso | University of BolognaValentina Pieroni | IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca This study examines whether Italian firms exposed to climate risks face higher borrowing costs due to spatial
