Publications

Multiple banking relationships: the role of firm connectedness (with A. Fracasso and C. Tomasi), Industrial and Corporate Change, https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtae001, 2024.

Bank information and firm growth. Microeconomic evidence from the US credit market (with H. Degryse, S. Kokas, and R. Minetti), Journal of Financial Services Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10693-023-00410-w, 2023.

The distributional impact of local banking. Evidence from the financial and sovereign-debt crises (with P. Murro and S. Di Colli), European Journal of Political Economy 80, 102478, 2023.

Relationship lending and the use of trade credit: the role of relational capital and private information (with P. Murro), Small Business Economics 59, 327-360, 2022.

Not all banks are equal. Cooperative banking and income inequality (with R. Minetti and P. Murro), Economic Inquiry 59, 420-440, 2021.

Innovation over the industry life cycle. Does ownership matter? (with M. Cucculelli), Research Policy 49, 103878, 2020.

Post-crisis firm survival, business model changes and learning: evidence from the Italian manufacturing industry (with M. Cucculelli), Small Business Economics 54, 459–474, 2020.

Bank lending technologies and credit availability in Europe. What can we learn from the crisis? (with G. Ferri, P. Murro and Z. Rotondi), Journal of International Money and Finance 95, 128-148, 2019.

Family firms and access to credit: is family ownership beneficial? (with P. Murro),  Journal of Banking & Finance 101, 173-187, 2019.

Relational capital in lending relationships: evidence from European family firms (with M. Cucculelli and A. Zazzaro), Small Business Economics  52, 277–301, 2019.

Firms' proactiveness during the crisis: evidence from European data (with J. Brzozowski and M. Cucculelli), Entrepreneurship Research Journal 9, 20170215, 2019.

Does family ownership structure affect investment-cash flow sensitivity? Evidence from Italian SMEs, Applied Economics 49, 4378-4393, 2017.

Bank screening technologies and the founder effect: evidence from European lending relationships (with M. Cucculelli), Finance Research Letters 20, 229-237, 2017.

Family firms’ access to bank lending: evidence from Italy, Economics Bulletin 35, 1874-1885, 2015.

Family firms and regional entrepreneurship. The European evidence (with R. Cappelli and M. Cucculelli). In: Basco, R., Stough, R., and Suwala, L., Family Business and Regional Development, Routledge, 2021.

Banche di credito cooperativo e distribuzione del reddito: evidenze dai comuni italiani (with P. Murro), Rivista Bancaria, vol. 1, 2024.

Le imprese ad alta crescita nelle Marche (with M. Cucculelli), ECONOMIA MARCHE Journal of Applied Economics, vol. XXXV, 41-66, 2016.

Structural reforms in Italy, 2014-2017, European Commission, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs.

Evaluation support study on the EU rules on State aid for access to finance for SMEs, European Commission, Directorate-General for Competition.

Navigating crises. Organizational innovation and managerial restructuring in bad times, available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4823627 (submitted, with R. Minetti, P. Murro and M. Shaffer).

Open innovation in family-owned firms, Working Papers CASMEF 2024-01, Department of Economics and Finance, LUISS Guido Carli  (submitted). 

Out of sight, out of mind? Global chains, export, and credit allocation in bad times, Working Papers 2022-2, Michigan State University, Department of Economics (with R. Minetti and P. Murro).

Credit constraints and open innovation strategies, Working Papers CASMEF 2022-01, Department of Economics and Finance, LUISS Guido Carli (submitted, with P. Murro). 

Product innovation, entrepreneurial orientation and firm growth. Evidence from Italian multi-product family firms (with M. Cucculelli).

The economic impact of cultural tourism: exploring tourist spending and motivation (with G. Attanasi, G. Ciccarone, A. De Fabrizio, P. Llerena).

Judicial efficiency and income inequality: evidence from a natural experiment (with F. Colcerasa and P. Murro)

Banking on green. Banking development and renewable energy adoption in Italy.

Natural disasters, banking development, and economic resilience (with P. Murro).

Countries lending infrastructure and the use of trade credit (with P. Murro and P. Paiardini). 

Financial fragility, bank incentives, and export dynamics: Evidence from India (with Y. Bharat, R. Minetti and P. Murro).

Local socio-economic conditions and family firms access to credit (with P. Murro).