In many industrial sectors, firms amass large patent portfolios to reinforce their bargaining position with competitors. In a context where patents have a pure strategic nature, Stefano Comino from the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Udine and Fabio M. Manenti from the
Countries exporting agricultural goods are relatively abundant in the combined availability of water and arable land but, in absolute terms, scarce in capital and not richer in water in comparison to more developed ones. In this paper, published in Environment and Development Economics, Mohamad
In their recent publication in "European Planning Studies", Roberto Antonietti, (Department of Economics and Management, University of Padua), Luca Cattani (Gran Sasso Science Institute) and Giulio Pedrini (Kore University of Enna) analyze the link between robot exposure, labour productivity, and
Authors:Marco Ghitti Department of Economics and Management, University of PaduaGianfranco Gianfrate EDHEC Business SchoolFlorencio Lopez-de-Silanes SKEMA Business School, Universite Cote d'Azur & NBERMarco Spinelli EDHEC Risk Institute Investigating the informative content of Second Party
In this paper, published in Economics Letters, Leonardo Madio (dSEA Unipd) and Francesco Principe (University of Bergamo) examine at the municipality level in Italy the factors that drive support for two referendums: one on the decriminalization of cannabis cultivation and the other on physician
