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Working Papers
2020
- Exploring Hospital Efficiency within and between Italian Regions: New Empirical Evidence
Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers, University of Turin 
See also Journal Article Exploring hospital efficiency within and between Italian regions: new empirical evidence, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer (2022) View citations (6) (2022)
- Human Capital, Good Government and Economic Development: Evidence from Italian Provinces
Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers, University of Turin
- Public Finance, Government Spending and Economic Growth: The Case of Local Governments in Italy
Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers, University of Turin View citations (2)
Also in Working papers, Società Italiana di Economia Pubblica (2020) View citations (2)
- The Relationship between Employment and Mental Health Problems in Italy: Evidence from EHIS2 Microdata
Working Papers, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno
2019
- The determinants of students' achievement: a difference between OECD and not OECD countries
MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
- Weight status and mental health in Italy: Evidence from EHIS2 microdata
MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
2018
- Financial Stability as a Public Policy Goal to Increase Local Economic Development: an Empirical Investigation from Italian Labour Market Areas
CELPE Discussion Papers, CELPE - CEnter for Labor and Political Economics, University of Salerno, Italy View citations (1)
- Market Structure and Financial Stability: Theory and Evidence
CELPE Discussion Papers, CELPE - CEnter for Labor and Political Economics, University of Salerno, Italy View citations (1)
2017
- Bank Performance, Financial Stability and Market Competition: do Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Banks Behave Differently?
CELPE Discussion Papers, CELPE - CEnter for Labor and Political Economics, University of Salerno, Italy View citations (4)
- First, Second and Third Tier Universities: Academic Excellence, Local Knowledge Spillovers and Innovation in Europe
CSEF Working Papers, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy View citations (2)
- On the relationship between bank market concentration and stability of financial institutions: Evidence from the Italian banking sector
MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)
- Research, knowledge transfer and innovation: the effect of Italian universities’ efficiency on the local economic development 2006-2012
Working papers, Società Italiana di Economia Pubblica View citations (5)
See also Journal Article Research, knowledge transfer, and innovation: The effect of Italian universities’ efficiency on local economic development 2006−2012, Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell (2019) View citations (34) (2019)
2016
- Innovation Processes and Environmental Safety
CELPE Discussion Papers, CELPE - CEnter for Labor and Political Economics, University of Salerno, Italy
- Innovation and University-Firm R&D Collaboration in the European Food and Drink Industry
CSEF Working Papers, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy View citations (1)
See also Journal Article Innovation and University-Firm R&D Collaboration in the European Food and Drink Industry, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell (2017) View citations (15) (2017)
- Investigating the impact of national income on environmental pollution. International evidence
MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
- Science, university-firm R&D collaboration and innovation across Europe
2016 Fifth AIEAA Congress, June 16-17, 2016, Bologna, Italy, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA)
2015
- Evaluating the efficiency of Italian public universities (2008-2011) in presence of (unobserved) heterogeneity
Working papers, Società Italiana di Economia Pubblica View citations (5)
See also Journal Article Evaluating the efficiency of Italian public universities (2008–2011) in presence of (unobserved) heterogeneity, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier (2016) View citations (19) (2016)
- Explaining (in)efficiency in higher education: a comparison of parametric and non-parametric analyses to rank universities
MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)
- Regional innovation system (in)efficiency and its determinants: an empirical evidence from Italian regions
MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)
2014
- Handling negative data using Data Envelopment Analysis: a directional distance approach applied to higher education
MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
- How students' exogenous characteristics affect faculties’ inefficiency. A heteroscedastic stochastic frontier approach
MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
- Human capital development, knowledge spillovers and local growth: Is there a quality effect of university efficiency?
MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
- On the causal effect of religion on life satisfaction using a propensity score matching technique
MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)
- The common pool problem of intergovernmental interactions
MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
2013
- Financial Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from Highly Disaggregated Italian Data
CSEF Working Papers, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy View citations (7)
- Regulation and the Crisis: The Efficiency of Italian Cooperative Banks
CSEF Working Papers, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy View citations (4)
2011
- Risk and Regulation: The Efficiency of Italian Cooperative Banks
CSEF Working Papers, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy View citations (15)
Journal Articles
2024
- A parametric approach to institutional quality and bank cost inefficiency in diversity context: The case of Italy
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2024, 95, (3), 723-759
- Are cooperative and commercial banks equally effective in reducing the shadow economy? International evidence
Economic Modelling, 2024, 138, (C)
- Bank cost efficiency and underground economy: The asymmetric impact of cooperative and non-cooperative banks
The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 2024, 30, (C)
- Digital divide, gender gap, and entrepreneurial orientation: How to foster technology adoption among Pakistani higher education students?
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2024, 93, (C) View citations (3)
- Does Regulatory Quality Reduce Informal Economy? A Theoretical and Empirical Framework
Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2024, 172, (2), 543-567
- Does institutional quality matter for bioeconomy performance? Insights from Italian regions
Economic Change and Restructuring, 2024, 57, (6), 1-31
- Environmental performance of countries. Examining the effect of diverse institutional factors in a metafrontier approach
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2024, 95, (C)
- Institutional quality and bioeconomy performance in European countries: Unveiling the evidence
Ecological Economics, 2024, 220, (C) View citations (2)
- Research and knowledge transfer performance in Colombian universities
Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2024, 58, (1), 77-96 View citations (1)
- Students’ performance and faculty efficiency. Assessing the role of gender through a metafrontier
Journal of Economic Studies, 2024, 51, (9), 323-337
- The effects of types of banks on financial access and income inequality in a heterogeneous sample: A quantile regression analysis
Journal of Economics and Business, 2024, 131, (C)
- The interaction between corruption, bank cost efficiency and economic development in Italy
Economic Systems, 2024, 48, (3)
- Unraveling the impact of economic policy uncertainty on environmental efficiency: How do institutional quality and political orientation matter?
Economics and Politics, 2024, 36, (3), 1450-1490
2023
- Basel accords and banking inefficiency: Evidence from the Italian local market
International Journal of Finance & Economics, 2023, 28, (4), 4079-4119
- Corruption and firms’ efficiency: international evidence using an instrumental variable approach
Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, 2023, 40, (2), 731-759 View citations (1)
- Cross country comparisons of environmental efficiency under institutional quality. Evidence from European economies
Journal of Economic Studies, 2023, 51, (9), 75-111 View citations (3)
- Government effectiveness and inequality in Italian regions
Economic Change and Restructuring, 2023, 56, (2), 781-801 View citations (2)
- Institutional quality and public spending in Europe: A quantile regression approach
Economics and Politics, 2023, 35, (3), 949-1019 View citations (4)
- Obesity and Early School Leaving in EU Countries: Evidence of Health Behaviours using an Instrumental Variable Approach
Economia & lavoro, 2023, (2), 50-82
- Quality of Government and Types of Innovation—Empirical Evidence for Italian Manufacturing Firms
Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2023, 14, (2), 1749-1789
- Universities, Local Economic Productivity and Quality of Institutions: Evidence From Italy
International Regional Science Review, 2023, 46, (2), 179-209
2022
- Bank-specific factors and credit risk: evidence from Italian banks in different local markets
Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, 2022, 31, (3), 316-350
- Employment and Depressive Symptoms in Italy: the Need for Policy Measures
Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2022, 130, (4), 323-362
- Exploring hospital efficiency within and between Italian regions: new empirical evidence
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2022, 57, (3), 269-284 View citations (6)
See also Working Paper Exploring Hospital Efficiency within and between Italian Regions: New Empirical Evidence, Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers (2020) (2020)
- Financial stability and local economic development: the experience of Italian labour market areas
Empirical Economics, 2022, 62, (4), 1951-1979 View citations (4)
- Firm innovation and local bank efficiency in Italy: Does the type of bank matter?
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2022, 93, (4), 1083-1128 View citations (2)
- Gender differences in weight status and early school leaving in Italy
Regional Science Policy & Practice, 2022, 14, (3), 644-666
- Governmental stability and emigration in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of skills and gender
Journal of Economic Studies, 2022, 50, (7), 1450-1466
- How do dimensions of institutional quality improve Italian regional innovation system efficiency? The Knowledge production function using SFA
Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2022, 32, (2), 591-642 View citations (7)
- On the impact of knowledge and institutional spillovers on RIS efficiency. Evidence from Italian regional level
Growth and Change, 2022, 53, (2), 702-752 View citations (2)
- Weight Status and Depression in Italy: Evidence from the Second Wave of the European Health Interview Survey
Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 2022, 34, (2), 193-227
- What matters in educational performance? Evidence from OECD and non-OECD countries
Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2022, 56, (6), 4335-4394 View citations (1)
2021
- Do microeconomic and macroeconomic factors influence Italian bank credit risk in different local markets? Evidence from cooperative and non-cooperative banks
Journal of Economics and Business, 2021, 114, (C) View citations (3)
- Green Energies, Employment, and Institutional Quality: Some Evidence for the OECD
Sustainability, 2021, 13, (6), 1-21 View citations (3)
- Market Structure and Financial Stability: the Interaction between Profit-Oriented and Mutual Cooperative Banks in Italy
Journal of Financial Services Research, 2021, 60, (2), 235-259 View citations (4)
- The effects of university academic research on firm’s propensity to innovate at local level: evidence from Europe
The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2021, 46, (2), 483-530 View citations (3)
- The joint impact of different types of innovation on firm's productivity: evidence from Italy
Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2021, 30, (2), 151-182 View citations (8)
- The role of nonlinearity on the financial development–economic performance nexus: an econometric application to Italian banks
Empirical Economics, 2021, 60, (5), 2293-2322 View citations (2)
2020
- Does graduate human capital production increase local economic development? An instrumental variable approach
Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 60, (5), 959-994 View citations (6)
- Innovative performance effects of institutional quality: an empirical investigation from the Triad
Applied Economics, 2020, 52, (50), 5464-5476 View citations (6)
- Short- and long-term relation between economic development and government spending: the role of quality of institutions
Applied Economics, 2020, 52, (9), 987-1009
2019
- Academic excellence, local knowledge spillovers and innovation in Europe
Regional Studies, 2019, 53, (7), 1058-1069 View citations (11)
- Are Green Energies Employment Friendly? Empirical Evidence for Some OECD Countries over the 1985–2013 Period
Sustainability, 2019, 11, (14), 1-17 View citations (1)
- BANK PERFORMANCE, FINANCIAL STABILITY AND MARKET CONCENTRATION: EVIDENCE FROM COOPERATIVE AND NON‐COOPERATIVE BANKS
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2019, 90, (1), 103-139 View citations (13)
- Cooperation, diffusion of technology and environmental protection: a new index
Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2019, 53, (4), 1913-1940 View citations (1)
- Market power and stability of financial institutions: evidence from the Italian banking sector
Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, 2019, 28, (2), 235-265 View citations (2)
- Research, knowledge transfer, and innovation: The effect of Italian universities’ efficiency on local economic development 2006−2012
Journal of Regional Science, 2019, 59, (5), 819-849 View citations (34)
See also Working Paper Research, knowledge transfer and innovation: the effect of Italian universities’ efficiency on the local economic development 2006-2012, Working papers (2017) View citations (5) (2017)
- The role of human capital in identifying the drivers of product and process innovation: empirical investigation from Italy
Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2019, 53, (3), 1209-1238 View citations (1)
2018
- Does econometric methodology matter to rank universities? An analysis of Italian higher education system
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2018, 62, (C), 104-120 View citations (15)
- Investigating the non-linearity between national income and environmental pollution: international evidence of Kuznets curve
Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2018, 20, (1), 179-210 View citations (11)
- The contribution of university, private and public sector resources to Italian regional innovation system (in)efficiency
The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2018, 43, (2), 432-457 View citations (22)
2017
- Innovation and University-Firm R&D Collaboration in the European Food and Drink Industry
Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 68, (3), 749-780 View citations (15)
See also Working Paper Innovation and University-Firm R&D Collaboration in the European Food and Drink Industry, CSEF Working Papers (2016) View citations (1) (2016)
- Investigating the Human Capital Development–growth Nexus
International Regional Science Review, 2017, 40, (6), 638-678 View citations (8)
2016
- A DIRECTIONAL DISTANCE APPROACH APPLIED TO HIGHER EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHING-RELATED OUTPUT EFFICIENCY
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2016, 87, (2), 145-173 View citations (3)
- Evaluating the efficiency of Italian public universities (2008–2011) in presence of (unobserved) heterogeneity
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2016, 55, (C), 47-58 View citations (19)
See also Working Paper Evaluating the efficiency of Italian public universities (2008-2011) in presence of (unobserved) heterogeneity, Working papers (2015) View citations (5) (2015)
- Managerial Efficiency in Higher Education Using Individual Versus Aggregate Level Data. Does the choice of Decision Making Units Count?
Managerial and Decision Economics, 2016, 37, (2), 106-126 View citations (6)
- Measuring Efficiency in Higher Education: An Empirical Study Using a Bootstrapped Data Envelopment Analysis
International Advances in Economic Research, 2016, 22, (1), 11-33 View citations (12)
- On the causal effect of religiosity on life satisfaction using a propensity score matching technique
International Journal of Social Economics, 2016, 43, (10), 1031-1048 View citations (2)
- On the relationship among efficiency, capitalization and risk: does management matter in local banking market?
Applied Economics, 2016, 48, (41), 3912-3934 View citations (6)
- Risk and regulation: A difference-in-differences analysis for Italian local banks
Finance Research Letters, 2016, 17, (C), 25-32 View citations (14)
2015
- Did fiscal institutions affect Wagner's law in Italy during 1951-2009 period? An empirical analysis
Applied Economics, 2015, 47, (59), 6409-6424 View citations (7)
2014
- Financial development and local growth: evidence from highly disaggregated Italian data
Applied Financial Economics, 2014, 24, (24), 1605-1615 View citations (26)
- Local financial development and economic growth: an outlook on italian territorial data
Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, 2014, (1-2), 187-216 View citations (2)
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