The role of innovation in SMEs is strategic in shaping the ability of the firm to compete; innovation depends on on the firms’ ability to identify, assimilate and exploit knowledge from all around. Generally, an important ...

Growth and labour market forecast in OECD countries remains bleak for 2013, especially for youth. The modest employment recovery in 2011 did not continue in 2012: youth unemployment rates stagnated at 15.7% in 2014 (OECD: ...

This thesis investigates experimentally how the individuals’ state (e.g. economic, labor and social state) influences their trusting and trustworthy behavior in one-shot anonymous interactions. Moreover, it analyzes the ...

The purpose of the work is to analyze a field not much explored by the Italian social research: the role of the probation service –so of the Office of External Penal Execution (UEPE)– within the partnership networks. It ...

This project includes three essays in Corporate Finance. The rst part of the thesis investigates the relationship between Financial Development and Economic Growth for a set of 77 countries over the period 1960-1995. ...

Il lavoro analizza empiricamente due possibili cause di inefficienza allocativa: l'asimmetria informativa (capitolo 1) e la disuguaglianza nella distribuzione della ricchezza (capitolo 2). Il primo capitolo ha l’obiettivo ...

This thesis deals with the application of a well-known analytical tool, the Beveridge Curve, to the analysis of two samples of countries within the OECD. The novelty of the thesis mainly resides in the use of novel data-sets, ...

Over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of literature on program evaluation. Many researches in economics look at the causal effect of exposure of units to programs on some outcomes through econometric ...

The Vector Autoregressive (VAR) Models can be considered as a dynamic multivariate extension of the univariate autoregressive models. This family of models has become very popular in macroeconomics analysis after the ...

According to the definition of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) dell’U.S. Departement of Commerce, cloud computing consists of a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to ...