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"Multinational subsidiaries and green innovation"

In a recent publication, our Valentina De Marchi, Giulio Cainelli, and Roberto Grandinetti analyze whether multinational subsidiaries are more likely than domestic firms to green innovate. Using a survey covering 14 European countries, their results suggest that subsidiaries have an advantage of

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"Selling cross-border in online markets: The impact of the ban on geoblocking strategies"

This paper, written by Fabio M. Manenti from the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova and Marc Bourreau from Télécom Paris, aims at analysing the impact on prices (short-term impact) and investments (long-term impact) of the recent European regulation on electronic

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"Privacy Regulation and Quality-Enhancing Innovation"

Recent data protection policies, such as the EU GDPR, California CCPA, and Brazilian LGPD, require firms to secure user consent for data collection. The EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) also imposes stringent obligations on "gatekeeping firms." This paper, published in the Journal of Industrial

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"Does foreign investment hurt job creation at home? The geography of outward FDI and employment in the USA"

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

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"The perils of friendly oversight"

Decision makers often rely on experts' evaluations to decide on complex proposals. Experts, however, have their own agendas: they may favor or oppose the proposals under their scrutiny.In this paper, Dino Gerardi (University of Turin, Collegio Carlo Alberto), Edoardo Grillo (dSEA Unipd) and Ignacio

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