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Is there life beyond the ISI journals lists? the international impact of Spanish, Italian, French and German economics journals. [PDF]

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This comparative study looks at the international impact of leading economics journals published in Spain, Italy, France and Germany. It also aims to establish whether they play a similar role in any of these 4 countries.
Pons Novell, Jordi, Tirado, Daniel A.
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Education and Redistribution [PDF]

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Education is a very expensive way of carrying out redistributive policies. This is because those who have been more favoured by nature/luck are also those who benefit most from the investment in education: if educational resources are distributed ...
Gianni De Fraja
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Strategic Insider Trading with Imperfect Information: A Trading Volume Analysis [PDF]

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A model of insider trading is used to analyze the behaviour of trading volume in financial markets characterized by asymmetric information. This model extends the one in Bhattacharya and Nicodano (2001) by introducing competition among informed traders ...
Andrea Marcello Buffa
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Knowledge Flows and Productivity [PDF]

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National and international flows of knowledge are fundamental determinants of technological progress. In this article we review the existing literature on knowledge flows and we propose a method for estimating them, based on patent citations.
Giovanni Peri
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Equilibrium Wage Dispersion: Monopsony or Sorting? [PDF]

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Why are similar workers paid differently? I review and compare two lines of research that have recently witnessed great progress in addressing “unexplained” wage inequality: (i) worker unobserved heterogeneity in, and sorting by, human capital; (ii ...
Giuseppe Moscarini
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New Processes and New Products in Europe and Italy [PDF]

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This article investigates the differences in the mechanisms and strategies conducing to the introduction of new processes and products in Italy and Europe.
Francesco Crespi, Mario Pianta
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Of Intellectual Property, Open Source and Innovation: Trends, and Some Opportunities for Italy [PDF]

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This paper offers some reflections on the institutions for the governance of knowledge as an economic asset, and its management in firms. It then relies on a research based on a survey of a large number of patents (PatVal-EU) to discuss specific features
Alfonso Gambardella
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The Predictive Power of Interest Rates Spread for Economic Activity [PDF]

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Since the 1980s, economists argued that the spread between the long-and short-term interest rates is a good predictor of future economic activity. Developing Estrella (2006) study, I investigate the ability of the interest rate spread to predict USA and ...
Raffaele Passaro
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