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 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. ...

In this work some aspects of health have been examined. After a short description of the evolution of the concept of health and disease, analysis focused on “Health and Welfare”, “Health and Individual choices” and “Health ...

The problem of the inefficiency of the judicial system is a very present in Italy. In Italy the average duration of a process is significantly higher than that of the Ocse countries. The excessive length of judgments has ...

This thesis deals empirically with various research questions in environmental economics. In particular the issues of sustainability and eco-efficiency are approached on three different data-sets. The first paper deals ...