“Laggard Firms, Technology Diffusion and its Structural and Policy Determinants”, International Economic Review, 66(2): 595-627 (2025), with G. Berlingieri, C. Criscuolo and R. Verlhac.
Download: Online appendix, Working paper
“Industry Concentration in Europe and North America”, Industrial and Corporate Change, 34(3): 407–424 (2025, lead article), with Matej Bajgar, G. Berlingieri, Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Timmis.
Download: Online Appendix, Working Paper
Media: The Economist (1), The Economist (2)
“Liquidity shortfalls during the Covid-19 outbreak: assessment and policy responses”, Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, 47–61, (2022), with L. Demmou, D. Dlugosch and G. Franco.
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Media: VoxEU, OECD Ecoscope blog
“The productivity puzzle and misallocation: an Italian perspective”, Economic Policy, 33(96): 635–684 (2018), with M. Del Gatto, F. Hassan, G. Ottaviano and F. Schivardi.
Download: CEP Discussion Paper N.1520, EC Discussion Paper 30
Media: VoxEU
“The Productivity-Wage Premium: Does size still matter in a service economy?”, American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 108:328-33 (2018), with G. Berlingieri and C. Criscuolo.
“Export Participation and Misallocation after The Financial Crisis: Evidence from Italy”, Rivista di Politica Economica, 105(7-9): 223–250 (2016), with M. Del Gatto, F. Hassan, G. Ottaviano and F. Schivardi.
“Misallocation and Total Factor Productivity in Italy: Evidence from Firm-level Data”, Labour, 29(4): 367–393 (2015).
“Mark-ups in the Digital Era”, CEP Discussion Paper N. CEPDP1994 (2024), with C. Criscuolo and L. Marcolin.
Revised version, R&R at Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2025).
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Media: The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review
“Defining the geographical level of competition: A taxonomy of industries”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, No. 2024/05 (2024), with C. Criscuolo, J. De Lyon, A. Greppi and O. Pallanch.
R&R at Economica (2025).
Contributed to "Protecting Competition in a Changing World", DG COMP (European Commission).
"A scorecard of industry competition", OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, No. 2025/16, with with C. Abele, C. Criscuolo and A. Greppi.
"Acquisitions and their effect on start-up innovation: Stifling or scaling?", OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, No. 2025/10, with with M. Berger, A. Greppi and D. Kirpichev.
"Some facts on business dynamism among market leaders”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, No. 2025/07 (2025), with C. Criscuolo, J. De Lyon, A. Greppi and O. Pallanch.
"Concentration and business dynamics in product markets”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, No. 2025/04 (2025), with C. Criscuolo, J. De Lyon, A. Greppi and O. Pallanch.
"Exploring the evolution and the state of competition in the EU”, Protecting competition in a changing world, European Commission (2024), with M. Chaves, C. Criscuolo, J. De Lyon, A. Greppi and O. Pallanch.
Contributed to "Protecting Competition in a Changing World", DG COMP (European Commission).
'Industry concentration in Europe: Trends and methodological insights”, CEP Discussion Paper N. CEPDP2063 (2024), with M. Chaves, C. Criscuolo, J. De Lyon, A. Greppi and O. Pallanch.
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Media: VoxEU, Financial Times
“Exploring the Evolution and the State of Competition in the EU”, in Protecting Competition in a Changing World, European Commission (2024), with M. Chaves, C. Criscuolo, J. De Lyon, A. Greppi and O. Pallanch.
“Is there a trade-off between productivity and employment? A cross-country micro-to-macro study”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers, No. 157 (2023), with F. Calvino, M. Reinhard and R. Verlhac.
Media: VoxEU
“Employment dynamics across firms during COVID-19: the role of job retention schemes”, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1788 (2023), with G. Ciminelli, H. Costa, C. Criscuolo, L. Demmou, G. Franco, I. Desnoyers-James and R. Verlhac.
Media: VoxEU, OECD Ecoscope blog
“Insolvency and debt overhang following the COVID-19 outbreak: Assessment of risks and policy responses”, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1651 (2021), with L. Demmou, G. Franco, D. Dlugosch, M. Adalet McGowan and Sahra Sakha.
“Scale, market power and competition in a digital world: Is bigger better?”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, No. 2021/01 (2021), with M. McMahon, Eleanor Doyle and Stephen Kinsella.
The Firm Dimension of Productivity: The Role of Productivity Dispersion and Business Dynamics, In: "In-Depth Productivity Review of Belgium" OECD Publishing (2019), with G. Berlingieri,F. Calvino, C. Criscuolo, Isabelle Desnoyer-James, Nicolas Gonne and Clara Kögel.
“Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo: la divergenza nella produttività tra settori e imprese italiane”, In: C. Dell’Aringa, C. Lucifora, and T. Treu, editors, Salari, produttività e Disuguaglianze, AREL, Il Mulino (2017), with G. Berlingieri, S. Costa and C. Criscuolo.
“The slowdown in Finnish productivity growth: Causes and consequences”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers, No. 139 (2023), with O. Jurvanen, A. Lassi, F. Manaresi, R. Verlhac.
“Coverage and representativeness of Orbis data”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, No. 2020/06 (2020), with M. Bajgar, G. Berlingieri, C. Criscuolo and J. Timmis.
“DynEmp and MultiProd: Metadata”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, No. 2019/03 (2019), with I. Desnoyers-James and and F. Calvino.
“Can Firm Micro Data Match Macro Trends? Comparing MultiProd data with STAN”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, No. 2019/02 (2019), with M. Bajgar, G. Berlingieri and C. Criscuolo.
"Bits and bolts: The digital transformation and manufacturing", OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, No. 2019/01 (2019), with M. Bajgar, F. Calvino, C. Criscuolo and J. Timmis.
“Firm-level Productivity Differences: Insight from the OECD’s MultiProd Project” (invited article), International Productivity Monitor, 32: 97–115 (2017), with G. Berlingieri, P. Blanchenay and C. Criscuolo.
“The MultiProd project: a comprehensive overview”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Paper No. 2017/04 (2017), with G. Berlingieri, P. Blanchenay and C. Criscuolo.
“AI and Competition”, with F. Calvino, H. Costa, A. Greppi, and O. Pallanch.
“Corporate Venture Capital and Start-up Innovation”, with M. Berger, A. Greppi and D. Kirpichev.
“The Productivity Dynamics of Different Laggard Firms”, with M. Reinhard and R. Verlhac.
“How Are Competition Measures Related to Business Dynamism?”, with J. De Lyon.
“The OECD/STI Start-ups Database: A New Lens on the Global Start-up Ecosystem”, with M. Berger, A. Greppi, D. Kirpichev and J.A. Muños Alvarado.
“The Effect of Environmental Regulation on Firm Productivity”, with F. D’Arcangelo and G. Pavan.