Research

WORKS IN PROGRESS

• Environmental Regulation and Pollution Abatement with Incremental Innovation [with Bimonte S.]

• Is TFP Clean or Dirty? A Firm-Level Analysis [with Bimonte S. and Martino R.]

• The (In)significant Effects of Government Subsidies [with Lofaro A.]

COMPLETED WORKING PAPERS

• Are Clean Firms All Alike? Exploring Cross-Firm Heterogeneity with Environmental Efficiency Isoquants

U Siena, mimeo [with Bimonte S. and Martino R.] (under review)

• Estimating Environmental Compliance Costs at the Installation Level 

U Siena WP 2021/861 [with Dijkstra B. and Valentini E.] (under review)

• Contested Transparency: Digital Monitoring Technologies and Worker Voice 

IZA Discussion Paper 2023/16362 [with Burdìn G., Dughera S. and Landini F.] (under review)

• Incentive Pay, Managerial Skills and Span of Control 

U Siena WP 2023/901 [with Dughera S. and Landini F.] (R&R - JEBO)

RECENT SELECTED ARTICLES  (full list @IDEAS)

• Dissecting Environmental Efficiency: The Role of Technology Adoption and Usage

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, accepted [with Valentini E.]

• Advanced Technologies and Worker Voice

Economica, 9(357): 1-38 [with Burdìn G. and Landini F.]

• Profit Sharing and Innovation across Organizational Layers

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 197: 598-623

• Coevolution of Job Automation Risk and Workplace Governance

Research Policy, 51(3): 104441 [with Burdìn G., Cattani L., Ellis W. and Landini F.]

• Labor Productivity and Firm-Level TFP with Technology-Specific Production Functions

Review of Economic Dynamics, 35: 283-300 [with Battisti M. and Del Gatto M.] 

• What Deters Labor-Owned Firm Creation? Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Sectors

Journal of Comparative Economics, 45(1): 139-153

• Corporate Governance Effects on Innovation When both Agency Costs and Asset Specificity Matter 

Industrial and Corporate Change, 25(6): 977-999 [with Laurenza E. and Rossi M. A.] 

• Unbundling Technology Adoption and TFP at the Firm Level: Do Intangibles Matter? 

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 24(2): 386-410 [with Battisti M. and Del Gatto M.] 

• Disentangling Liberalization and Privatization Policies: Is There a Political Trade-off?

Journal of Comparative Economics, 42(4): 1033-1051 [with Nicita A. and Sepe S.]

• Corporate Governance and Innovation: a Survey

Journal of Economic Surveys, 26(5): 835-864 

INSTITUTIONAL REPORTS

• Covid-19, Innovative Firms and Resilience 

WIPO - United Nations, Geneva, 2023 [with Battisti M. and Del Gatto M.]

• Corporate Governance and Growth 

OECD, Corporate Affairs Division, Paris, 2011 (access restricted)

• Broadband Diffusion: Drivers and Policies

IRG - Independent Regulators Group, Brussels, 2011 [with Cambini C. and others] (access restricted)