Research

Publications

• “The productivity puzzle and misallocation: an Italian perspective”, Economic Policy, 33(96): 635–684 (2018), M. Del Gatto, F. Hassan, G. Ottaviano and F. Schivardi.

• “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).

Working papers

• “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.

• “Liquidity shortfalls during the COVID-19 outbreak: Assessment and policy responses”, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1647 (2021), with L. Demmou, G. Franco and D. Dlugosch.

• “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.

• “Last but not least: laggard firms, technology diffusion and its structural and policy determinants”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers, No. 86 (2020), with G. Berlingieri, C. Criscuolo and R. Verlhac.

• “Industry Concentration in Europe and North America", OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers No. 2019/18 (2019), with M. Bajgar, G. Berlingieri, C. Criscuolo and J.Timmis.

• “Mark-ups in the Digital Era”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers No. 2018/10 (2018) , with C. Criscuolo and L. Marcolin.

• “The Productivity-Wage Premium: Does Size Still Matter in a Service Economy?”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers No. 2018/13 (2018), with G. Berlingieri and C. Criscuolo.

• “Italy’s Productivity Conundrum: A Study on Resource Misallocation in Italy”, E.C. Discussion paper 030 (2016), with M. Del Gatto, F.Hassan, G. Ottaviano and F. Schivardi.

Chapters

• “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.

Work in Progress

• “Does the Sector Matter? Unbundling the Size-Productivity-Wage Premium”, with G. Berlingieri and C. Criscuolo.

• “The Effect of Environmental Regulation on Firm Productivity”, with F. D’Arcangelo and G. Pavan.

• “The Role of Heterogeneous Mark-ups in Quantifying Misallocation: evidence for Italy”.

Other publications/Writings

• “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.

• "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.

• “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.

• “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.