Bayesian insights on digitalization and environmental sustainability practices. Towards the twin transition in the EU,  Business Strategy and the Environment,  2024 (with, Paolo Cozzucoli, Lidia Mannarino and Valeria Pupo)

Family firms, finance for innovation, and exports. Evidence from the European micro and small firms, 2024, Economics of Innovation and New Technology,  (with Graziella Bonanno, Achille Puggioni, and Stefania PS Rossi) DOI  10.1080/10438599.2024.2329263

Patents, family, and size. Evidence from Italian manufacturing firms, (2024) Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 33:1, 1-25 (with  Paola  Cardamone,  Lidia Mannarino and Valeria Pupo)

Family firm heterogeneity and patenting. Revising the role of size and age. Small Bus Econ (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-023-00805-y (with Lidia Mannarino and Valeria Pupo)

Networks, ownership, and productivity. Does firm age play a moderating role?, Journal of Economic Studies, 2024, 51(9), 212-231, (with  Paola  Cardamone,  Lidia Mannarino and Valeria Pupo)

Innovative SMEs in Italy. Explaining profitability patterns in inner areas, Journal of Economic Studies, 2024,  51 (9), 306-322 (with Lucia Errico and Sandro Rondinella)

Eco-Innovations and Firm Heterogeneity. Evidence from Italian Family and Nonfamily Firms, 2024, Under Review, (with Lidia Mannarino and Valeria Pupo)

 A meta-regression analysis on judicial efficiency literature: the role of methodological and courts diversity,  2024, Journal of Applied Economics,  27(1), 2284010, (with Graziella Bonanno and Francesco Foglia)

1. Before as WP On the heterogeneity in the judicial efficiency literature: a meta-regression analysis, (2021)  Dep. of Economics,  Statistics and Finance "Giovanni Anania,  University of Calabria, WP2021/2 (with Graziella Bonanno and Francesco Foglia)  Presentation at  EWEPA 2019  10 - 13 June 2019, London, UK - 30th Anniversary of the European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis 

Francesco Aiello, Graziella Bonanno & Francesco Foglia (2022) On the choice of accommodation type at the time of Covid-19. Some evidence from the Italian tourism sector, Current Issues in Tourism, 25:1, 41-45, DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2020.1846504 

Networks and family firm performance: some evidence from Italy, (2021), Applied Economics Letters,  (with  Paola  Cardamone,  Lidia Mannarino and Valeria Pupo)

Green patenting and corporate social responsibility. Does family involvement in business matter? (2021), Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management,  (with  Paola  Cardamone,  Lidia Mannarino and Valeria Pupo)

Does external R&D matter for family firm innovation? Evidence from the Italian manufacturing industry, 2020, Small Business Economics, (with  Paola  Cardamone,  Lidia Mannarino and Valeria Pupo)

How firms finance innovation. Further empirics from European SMEs., 2020, Metroeconomica,  (with Graziella Bonanno and Stefania Rossi)

Innovation and productivity in family firms: Evidence from a sample of European firms, 2019, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, (with Lidia Mannarino and Valeria Pupo) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2019.1629533 

Explaining differences in efficiency: a meta-study on local government literature, 2019, Journal of Economic Surveys, (with Graziella Bonanno) 

Good value for public money? The case of R&D policy, 2019, Journal of Policy Modelling, (with Giuseppe Albanese and Paolo Piselli)

New evidence on the firm-university linkages in Europe. The role of meritocratic management practices, 2019, International Review of Applied Economics, (with Paola Cardamone and Valeria Pupo)

On the Sources of Heterogeneity in Banking Efficiency Literature, 2018, Journal of Economic Surveys, (with Graziella Bonanno). Authors profile at Research Gate comprises the dataset and the Stata routines for replication (FA, GB)

Multilevel empirics for small banks in local markets, 2018, Papers in Regional Science,  (with Graziella Bonanno) Dataset and Stata routines for replication.

Efficiency in banking: an MRA, International Review of Applied Economics, 2016, 30(1), 112-149 (with Graziella Bonanno)

Firm heterogeneity in productivity across Europe: evidence from multilevel models, 2016, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 25(1/2) 57-89 (with Fernanda Ricotta)

1. Before as Firm heterogeneity in productivity across Europe. What explains what? (MPRA WP#56222/2014 . Paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) (Saint Petersburg, 24–26 Aug 2014); 55th  SIE Annual Meeting  (Trento 23–25 Oct. 2014)  and at the  Workshop ‘Explaining Economic Change’ (Rome, 12 Nov. 2014)

Bank efficiency and local market conditions. Evidence from Italy,  2016, Journal of Economics and Business, (with Graziella Bonanno)

New Evidence on Export Price Elasticity from China and Six OECD Countries,  2015, China and World Economy, 23(6), 56-78 (with Graziella Bonanno and Alessia Via)

1. Before as “Do Export Price Elasticities Support Tensions In Currency Markets? Evidence From China And Six Oecd Countries," WP 2014/05, Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza. Paper presented at the 55a SIE Annual Meeting (Trento 23–25 October 2014)

Again on trade elasticities: evidence from a selected sample of countries, 2015, Eurasian Business Review, 5(2), 259-287 (with Graziella Bonanno and Alessia Via)

1. Presented as “Trade-elasticities for China and OECD countries. Facts and myths of global disequilibria” at the 17th European Trade Study Group (ETSG) Conference, (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, 10-12 Sept. 2015)

Looking at the determinants of efficiency in banking: Evidence from Italian mutual-cooperatives, 2015, International Review of Applied Economics, DOI: 10.1080/02692171.2015.1122747 (with Graziella Bonanno). Before as MPRA WP#64286

Firm heterogeneity in TFP, sectoral innovation and geography. Evidence from Italy,  2015, International Review of Applied Economics,  2(5), 579–607 (with Pupo Valeria and Ricotta Fernanda)

Explaining TFP at firm level in Italy. Does location matter? 2014, Spatial Economic Analysis, 9, 1, 51-70. Before as MPRA WP 35656  (with Valeria Pupo and Fernanda Ricotta)

Being efficient to stay strong in a weak economy. The case of Calabrian manufacturing firms, Technology and Innovation, 2014, 5(2), 95-105 . Before as  MPRA WP# 54366 (with Concetta Castiglione) PDF

Produzioni identitarie. La sfida tra tradizione e modernità, in Reventino. Montagna Incantata, 2014, GAL Monti Reventino, Rubbettino Editore, Soveria Mannelli (CZ)

Profit and cost efficiency in the Italian banking industry (2006-2011), 2013. Economics and Business Letters, 2013, 2(4), 190-205. Before as  MPRA WP# 48940 (with Graziella Bonanno)

The Effectiveness of R&D Support in Italy.  Some Evidence from Matching Methods, Risk Governance & Control: Financial Markets & Institutions, 2013, 3(4), 7-15. Before as MPRA WP#53912,

Regional economic divide and the role of technological spillovers in Italy. Evidence from microdata, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2012, 23 (3), 205-220 (with Paola Cardamone)

Structural Funds and the Economic Divide in Italy, Journal of Policy Modeling, 2012. Vol. 34(3), pp- 403-418 (with Valeria Pupo)

Regional Infrastructure and Firm Investment. Theory and Evidence for Italy, Empirical Economics, 2012, 42, (3), 835-862[ before as WP639, Queen Mary, University of London, School of Economics and Finance. (with Alfonsina Iona and Leone Leonida)

"Do Trade Preferential Agreements Enhance The Exports Of Developing Countries? Evidence From The EU GSP," Economia Internazionale/International Economics, 2012, 65, (3), 371-402  [Before as  WP2010/02, Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica. January. 2010, (with Federica Demaria). Paper presented at the ITSG workshop held at the Bocconi University (Milan) (January 2010), at the II Workshop of the 2007Prin Project PUE&PIEC  held in Cetraro (September 2009) and at the 2010 12th ETSG Conference, 11th-12th Sept. 2010, Lausanne

“Un’analisi territoriale della produttività totale in Italia". Italian Journal of Regional Science, 2012, n. 2, pp. 23-46 (with Fernanda Ricotta and Valeria Pupo). [before as WP2010/07, Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica. April 2010]. Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Conference of the Italian Regional Studies Association, Aosta, 20th-22th Sept. 2010] (with Fernanda Ricotta and Valeria Pupo).

Le Università del Mezzogiorno nella storia dell'Unità d'Italia 1861-2011. Bianchi A. (Eds. by), Cap. 14, "L'Università della Calabria: un progetto nazionale", Il Mulino. 2011. pp. 157-165 (with Giovanni Latorre and Valeria Pupo)

Be productive or face decline. On the sources and determinants of output growth in Italian manufacturing firms,  Empirical Economics, 2011, 41 (3), 787-815 (with Camilla Mastromarco and Angelo Zago)

Analysing the Impact of Everything But Arms initiative using a gravity model" in De Benedictis L., Salvatici L. (Eds by ) The trade impact of European Union preferential policies, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin, Chap. 7. 2011. pp. 127-150 (with Paola Cardamone)

Le Università del Mezzogiorno nella storia dell'Unità d'Italia 1861-2011. Bianchi A. (Eds. by), Cap. 14, "L'Università della Calabria: un progetto nazionale", : Il Mulino. 2011. pp. 157-165 (with Giovanni Latorre and Valeria Pupo)

Analysing the Impact of Everything But Arms initiative using a gravity model, in De Benedictis L., Salvatici L.(Eds by ) The trade impact of European Union preferential policies, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin., Chap. 7. 2011. pp. 127-150 [before as  WP2010/08, Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica. Aprile 2010.  Paper presented at the 2010 12th ETSG Conference,11th-12th Sept. 2010, Lausanne and at the II Workshop of the 2007Prin Project PUE&PIEC held in Cetraro (September 2009) (with Paola Cardamone)

Experiences With Traditional Compensatory Finance Schemes And Lessons From Flex, Economia Internazionale/International Economics, 2010, LXIII, 1, pp. 1-51. Before as WP2009-12, Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica

R&D Spillovers and Firms' Performance in Italy. Evidence from a Flexible Production Function, in Spatial Econometrics: Methods and Applications, (2009), Argia G., Baltagi B.H. (Eds.), Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg ISBN 978-3-7908-2069-0. (with Paola Cardamone)

L’impatto della politica regionale dell'Unione Europea. Uno studio sulle regioni italiane, Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, XIV, 3, 421-454. Before as "L'impatto dei Fondi Strutturali in Italia", WP2009/1, Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica., Unical (with Pupo Valeria)

 Politiche commerciali e politiche interne di un paese importatore. Aracne Editrice, Rome,  2009. (ISBN: 978-88-548-2297-9)

Sulla dinamica della produttività totale dei fattori in Italia. Un'analisi settoriale, L'industria. Rivista di Economia e Politica Industriale , 2009, 3, 413-436. Also as "WP2008/1, Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica, Unical (with Pupo Valeria and Ricotta Fernanda)

Evaluating the Impact of Non-Reciprocal Trade Preferences Using Gravity Models, 2008. Applied Economics, (with Mariarosaria Agostino and Paola Cardamone)

R&D Spillovers and Firms’ Performance in Italy. Evidence from a Flexible Production Function. Empirical Economics, 2008, Vol. 34, pp. 143-166. (with Paola Cardamone)

Again on the Impact of R&D Spillovers at firm level in Italy, Annals of Economics and Statistics/Annales D'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, Vol. 57/58, (with Paola Cardamone)

Il ruolo delle infrastrutture e del sistema bancario sulla produttività delle imprese manifatturiere, in Guido Cella, Angelo Zago (Eds.), Competitività ed Efficienza dell'Economia Italiana: fattori sistemici e valutazioni quantitiative. (pp. 113-145). ISBN: 978-88-15-12121-9. Il Mulino, Bologna (with Camilla Mastromarco and Angelo Zago)

Infrastrutture regionali e investimenti d'impresa: teoria ed evidenza empirica in Italia, in Guido Cella, Angelo Zago (Eds. by), Competitività ed Efficienza dell'Economia Italiana: fattori sistemici e valutazioni quantitiative. (pp. 71-112). ISBN: 978-88-15-12121-9. Il Mulino, Bologna  (with Alfonsina Iona and Leone Leonida)

Similarity and Geographical Issues in Evaluating the Impact of R&D Spillovers at firm level. Evedence from Italy, The ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, 2007, Volume: 6, N. 4,  pp. 52-72 (with Paola Cardamone)

Imperfezioni Finanziarie e Scelte di investimento. Un’analisi empirica in Italia, IR TOP, L’eccellenza dell’informazione finanziaria,  2007, 4,32/40 (with Patrizia Celia, Maurizio La Rocca, Tiziana La Rocca)

R&D investments by Italian firms are not sensitive to cash flow, Sinergie. Rivista di Studi e Ricerche, 2007, Vol. 26, pp- 181-190. [Also as Discussion Paper Series, Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica, Università della Calabria, n. 44/2005] (with Patrizia Celia)

The use of an index of similarity to measure the flows of R&D at firm level, Sinergie. Rivista di Studi e Ricerche, 2007, Vol. 26, pp. 201-108. (with Paola Cardamone)

Scelte d’investimento, cash flow e vincoli finanziari in Italia, (with Patrizia Celia, Maurizio La Rocca), in  Maurizio La Rocca (Eds.), Politiche finanziarie d’impresa. L’interazione fra investimenti, cash flow e vincoli finanziari in Italia, 2007, EGEA, Milan, pp.131-177

Sensibilità al cash flow degli investimenti in Ricerca e Sviluppo, (with Patrizia Celia), in Maurizio La Rocca (Eds.), Politiche finanziarie d’impresa. L’interazione fra investimenti, cash flow e vincoli finanziari in Italia,EGEA, Milan. 2007. pp. 179-195

Reconsidering the Impact of Trade Preferences in Gravity Models. Does Aggregation Matter?, Agricultural TRADE AGreements  (TRADEAG) a Specific Targeted Research Project funded by the European Commission, Working Paper 04/2007 (with Mariarosaria Agostino and Paola Cardamone)

Spillover Effects of Public Capital across Italian Regions, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Calabria, mimeo, October 2006

Convergence and Regional Productivity Divide in Italy. Evidence from Panel Data,  Proceeeding Conference “Impresa, mercato, realtà territoriale" XXVII Annual Conference of the Italian Regional Economic Society - Pisa 12/14 October 2006 ISBN 88-87788-07-3. (http://www.aisre.it)  (with Vincenzo Scoppa)

R&D Spillovers and Productivity Growth. Evidence from Italian manufacturing Microdata (with Paola Cardamone ). Applied Economics Letters, 2005, 12, 625-631 [Also as Discussion Paper Series, Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica, Università della Calabria, n. 42, 2005]

Turismo e Fondi strutturali in una regione a ritardo di sviluppo: alcune evidenze empiriche, (with Valeria Pupo), Rivista Economica del Mezzogiorno, n. 1/2005 [Also as Discussion Paper Series, Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica, Università della Calabria, n. 43, 2005]

Produttività e capitale tecnologico nel settore manifatturiero italiano, L'industria. Rivista di Economia e Politica Industriale, 2005/1, pp. 199-145, (with Valeria Pupo and Paola Cardamone)

Un modello input-output uni-regionale per valutare l’impatto dei fondi strutturali in Calabria, in Secondo Rapporto di Ricerca sul Sistema di Monitoraggio del Mercato del Lavoro e di Valutazione degli Effetti Occupazionali del Programma Operativo della Calabria, Regione Calabria-Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica. June 2004. (with Paola Cardamone and Fernanda Ricotta) (downloadable at www.ecostat.unical.it/por )

Does Liberalization reduce Instability? A Look at the Interests of Exporting Developing Countries, Economia Internazionale, 2005. Vol. LVIII, n. 2, pp. 127-140

MOMOCAL: un modello macroeconometrico per valutare l’impatto occupazionale del POR Calabria, in Rapporto di Ricerca sul Sistema di Monitoraggio del Mercato del Lavoro e di Valutazione degli Effetti Occupazionali del Programma Operativo della Calabria, Regione Calabria-Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica. May 2003. (with Francesco Trivieri and Valeria Pupo) (downloadable at www.ecostat.unical.it/por )

I modelli input-output: teoria ed applicazioni, in Rapporto di Ricerca sul Sistema di Monitoraggio del Mercato del Lavoro e di Valutazione degli Effetti Occupazionali del Programma Operativo della Calabria, Regione Calabria-Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica. Maggio 2003. (with Paola Cardamone and Fernanda Ricotta). (downloadable at www.ecostat.unical.it/por)

L’impatto dei fondi strutturali sulla persistenza dei tassi di disoccupazione, in I Rapporto di Ricerca sul Sistema di Monitoraggio del Mercato del Lavoro e di Valutazione degli Effetti Occupazionali del Programma Operativo della Calabria, Regione Calabria-Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica. May 2003 (with Leone Leonida), (downloadable at www.ecostat.unical.it/por )

Il tasso di rendimento degli investimenti in Ricerca e Sviluppo delle imprese innovatrici italiane, Rivista di Politica Economica, 2004, XCIV, V-VI, pp.81-117 (with Valeria Pupo)

Does Ownership Matter? Evidence from the Italian Banking Industry, Department of Economics, University of Calabria, mimeo,  (with Damiano Silipo and Francesco Trivieri). October 2002

Ownership Structure, Behaviour and Performance of the Italian Banking Industry, Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica, Università degli Studi della Calabria, Discussion Paper Series, n. 25, 2001, (with Damiano Silipo andFrancesco Trivieri). Paper Presented at the IXXX Annual Conference of the “European Association for Research in Industrial Economics”, Madrid, 5-8 September 2002

Ranking production subsidies and import tariffs under different scenarios, Applied Economics Letters, 2002, Vol. 11, n. 9, pp. 715-720. (Appendix)

Financial Stabilization Systems, Economic Growth of Developing Countries and EU’s STABEX,  Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development, 2002,  Vol. 96, n. 1/2, pp 23-51

 Achieving domestic goals in an open economy. How to reduce national production, Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica, Università degli Studi della Calabria, , mimeo, November 2001

Sviluppo finanziario e crescita economica delle province italiane, in G. Anania (Eds.), Conoscere per decidere,  2001, Rubbettino Editore, Soveria Mannelli (CZ)

Uneven Regional Development in Italy: Explaining Differences in Productivity Levels, Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia,  2000, Vol. 60, n. 2, pp. 1-30 (with Vincenzo Scoppa)

Sulla scelta della politica più efficiente per aumentare la produzione in un paese importatore, Rivista di Politica Economia, 2000, Vol. XC, 2, pp.5-25

Divari regionali in Italia: differenze nei tassi di crescita o nei livelli?, Discussion Paper Series, Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università della Calabria, n. 12, Giugno 1999 (with Vincenzo Scoppa)

Finanziamento delle innovazioni in Calabria, Rapporto di Ricerca, Progetto RIS Calabria, Calpark, Rende (CS), 1999 (with Damiano Silipo and Francesco Trivieri)

The Nut sector in Italy: Not a Success Story, 1999, Options Mediterraneens (with Giovanni Anania)

Tradizioni produttive e piccole imprese in Calabria: i seggiolai di Serrastretta, in Cersosimo Domenico (Eds.)Città, Paesi, Distretti. Trame e nodi della realtà meridionale, Donzelli Editore, Roma, 1999 (with Maurizio Rizzuto)

Effects of STABEX on ACPs’ Economic Growth: further evidence, Applied Economics,  1999,  n. 31, XI,  pp. 1-10

The Stabilisation of LDCs’ Export Earnings. The Impact of EU STABEX Programme", International Review of Applied Economics, 1999, Vol. 13, n. 2

Instabilità dei proventi delle esportazioni, crescita economica e politiche di stabilizzazione. Il caso dei paesi in via di sviluppo aderenti alla convenzione di Lomé,   Economia Internazionale, 1999, Vol. LI , n.4

La dimensione socio-economica del porto di Gioia Tauro, Rapporto di Ricerca, CNR-ISFORT, Roma, 1998.

Turismo rurale e montano in Calabria. Una valutazione dell’impatto occupazionale del  progetto LOISIR, Quaderni di Ricerca, Associazione LOISIR, Catanzaro, 1998. (www.laborcoop.it )

"Gli effetti del mercato dei capitali sulla performance delle imprese italiane, Quaderni di Economia e Finanza, 1997, Vol. VI, n. 2, p. 83-113  (with Damiano Silipo)

Old problems and recent trends in nut production and trade in Italy, FAO-Nucis-Newsletter, 1997, n. 6, 3-4 (with Giovanni Anania)

Is it so  important to be preferred? The effects of the Trade Preferences Policies Granted to ACPs under the Lomé Conventions, Rivista di Agricoltura Tropicale e Sub-Tropicale, 1997, 1

Il Settore agricolo calabrese in cifre (1953-1989), INEA, Osservatorio di Economia Agraria per la Calabria, Studi e Ricerche/4, Rubbettino Editore, Soveria Mannelli, 1992 (with Franco Gaudio)

Protezionismo Agricolo Comunitario e Politiche di Preferenza Commerciale per i PVS. Un’analisi della I e della II Convenzione di Lomé, La Questione Agraria, 1990, 37, pp. 7-49 (with Giovanni Anania)

Un’analisi degli effetti della I e della II Convenzione di Lomè sulle esportazioni agro-alimentari dai paesi ACP verso la CEE, in AA.VV. Interdipendenze e Conflitti nelle Relazioni Agricole Internazionali, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1991, pp. 157-172 (with Giovanni Anania)