Working Papers

Working Papers

Here you can freely access early drafts and pre-print of my works

Assessing changes in EU innovation policy programs: from SME instrument to EIC accelerator for start-up funding, [Vita e Pensiero Working Paper Series]
Joint with M. Del Sorbo, C. Faber, F. Matteucci, M. Russ, July 2024

Extended producer responsibility and trade flows in waste: The case of batteries, [Link to FEEM webpage] [Link to VoxEU blog]
Joint with Marco Compagnoni, Fabio Pieri and Chiara Tomasi, 2023 Nota di Lavoro 22.2023, Milan, Italy: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

The Dynamics of Automation Adoption: Firm-Level Heterogeneity and Aggregate Employment Effects, [Link to CESIFO webpage]
Joint with Laura Bisio, Angelo Cuzzola and Daniele Moschella, 2023 CESifo Working Paper No. 10697

Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda, [Link to ILO webpage]
Joint with Bernardo Caldarola, Martina Occelli and Marco Sanfilippo, 2022 ILO Working paper 60

Factoring in the micro: a transaction-level dynamic factor approach to the decomposition of export volatility, [PDF]
Joint with Matteo Barigozzi, Angelo Cuzzola and Daniele Moschella, LEM WP 2021/22.

For whom the bell tolls: the firm-level effects of automation on wage and gender inequality, [PDF - Latest version - 2021-07]
Joint with Giacomo Domini and Daniele Moschella and Tania Treibich, LEM WP 2021/25 [First version - PDF]

International Patent Protection and Trade: Transaction-Level Evidence, [PDF - Latest version - 2021-07]
Joint with Gaetan de Rassenfosse and Daniele Moschella and Gabriele Pellegrino, LEM WP 2020/07. [First version - PDF]

Aggregate Productivity Growth in the Presence of (Persistently) Heterogeneous Firms, [PDF]
Joint with Giovanni Dosi and Le Li and Luigi Marengo and Simona Settepanella, LEM WP 2019/26.

Threats and opportunities in the digital era: automation spikes and employment dynamics, [PDF - Latest version - 2020-03]
Joint with Giacomo Domini and Daniele Moschella and Tania Treibich, LEM WP 2019/22 [PDF]

Concordance and Complementarity in IP Instruments, [PDF]
Joint with Chiara Piccardo and Cecilia Vergari, LEM WP 2019/19.

Long-Term Firm Growth: An Empirical Analysis of US Manufacturers 1959-2015, [PDF]
Joint with Giovanni Dosi and Daniele Moschella and Gary Pisano and Federico Tamagni, LEM WP 2019/13.

Export Modes and Adjustments to Exchange Rate Movements, [PDF - Latest version - 2019-11]
Joint with Stefano Bolatto and Chiara Tomasi, DEM Working Papers 2018/02. [PDF]

Efficiency, innovation, and imported inputs: determinants of export performance among Indian manufacturing firms, [PDF]
Joint with Nanditha Mathew and Daniele Moschella, LEM WP 2017/09.

Small, young, and exporters: New evidence on the determinants of firm growth, [PDF]
Joint with Daniele Moschella, LEM WP 2016/07.

The cost-quantity relations and the diverse patterns of 'learning by doing': Evidence from India, [PDF]
Joint with Giovanni Dosi and Nanditha Mathew, LEM WP 2016/26.

Indirect exporters and importers, [PDF]
Joint with Chiara Tomasi, Quaderni - Working Paper DSE N. 1005, 2015.

Persistance du comportement d'investissement dans le secteur manufacturier francais , [html]
Joint with Nadia Jacoby and Tania Treibich, Universite Paris1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and WP), 2015.

What do firms know? What do they produce?

A new look at the relationship between patenting profiles and patterns of product diversification,

Inside the Virtuous Cycle between Productivity, Profitability, Investment and Corporate Growth:

An Anatomy of China Industrialization,

Productivity Sorting and Mode of Export, [PDF]

Technology and costs in international competitiveness: from countries and sectors to firms, [PDF - new version]

Production theory: accounting for firm heterogeneity and technical change, [PDF] [zonotope replication] [NEW VERSION - PDF]

NEW Intermediaries in International Trade: Margins of Trade and Export Flows [PDF]

Dynamics of Investment and Firm Performance: Comparative evidence from manufacturing industries, [PDF]

Dynamics of productivity and cost of labor in Italian Manufacturing firms , [PDF]

Intermediaries in international trade: Direct versus indirect modes of export, [PDF]

Intermediaries in international trade: Direct versus indirect modes of export, [PDF]

Turbulence underneath the big calm?

Exploring the micro-evidence behind the flat trend of manufacturing productivity in Italy,

Trade and Profitability: Is there an export premium? Evidence from Italian manufacturing firms [PDF]

Financial and Economic Determinants of Firm Default, [PDF]

Credit Ratings, Economic Performance and Transition to Default: Evidence on Firm Selection at Work, [PDF]

Technological revolutions and the evolution of industrial structures.

Assessing the impact of new technologies upon size, pattern of growth and boundaries of the firms,

Wage Structure in Italian Manufacturing Firms, [PDF]

Energy, Development, and the Environment: An Appraisal Three Decades After the "Limits to Growth" Debate [PDF]

Technologies as Problem-solving Procedures and Technologies as Input-Output Relations: Some Perspectives on the Theory of Production [PDF]

Characterizing the Production Process: A Disaggregated Analysis of Italian Manufacturing Firms [PDF]

Indexing ed effetto S&P: Un esempio di learning nei mercati finanziari [PDF]

Studio di Eventi e modifiche del MIB30 [PDF]

PhD Dissertation - Acknowledgments and Introduction

Four essays on Productivity and Cost Structure of Business Firms