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Coopération et gouvernance dans deux districts en transition
No full textWP 10/2007; Industrial district are often described as systems of firms in static equilibrium, in which changes in the environment or in the power of stakeholders can break the cooperation mechanism and lead to the crisis and even death of the district. The authors analyse two industrial districts, Biella in Italy and Grasse in France, in which the worsening of competition has induced a deep evolution in the strategic behaviour of firms and in the asset of the district. Starting from this evidence they support the thesis that harder competition does not lead to a break in the district atmosphere, but to a change in its governance, in the mechanisms of interaction and level of commitment towards collective strategies
Conoscere Torino, 2007. Discover Torino. Socio-economic Profile of the Province
No full textStudi, statistica e documentazione. Conoscere Torino.Torino. STE
Conoscere Torino, 2007. Torin's Report Card
No full textStudi, statistica e documentazione. Conoscere Torino.Torino. STE
Macchine, lavoro e accrescimento della ricchezza. Riflessioni sul progresso tecnico, occupazione e sviluppo economico nel pensiero economico del Settecento ed Ottocento
No full textWP 01/2007; This paper presents the origins of the Economics of innovation describing the economic thought of the economists in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. In this period and in particular during the Industrial Revolution the economists argue the main effects of inventions and machines for consumers and entrepreneurs such as reduction of price, change of labour, improvement of international competition, rise of salaries, unemployment, economic growth and wealth of nations. Their discussions which are relevant, put forward the basis of the modern discipline of the Economics of innovation
Hospital Industry Restructuring and Input Substitutability: Evidence from a Sample of Italian Hospitals
No full textWP 03/2007; In this paper we investigate the economic rationality of the bed downsizing process characterising the hospital industry worldwide in the last decades, providing new evidence on the factor substitutability in the production of hospital services. We consider a sample of Italian regional producers and – differently from other studies – estimate a general cost function model, namely the Generalised Composite, firstly introduced by Pulley & Braunstein (1992). Alternative cost function specifications (included Translog) are estimated jointly with their associated input cost-share equations. For all models we derive Allen, Morishima and Shadow elasticities of substitution between input pairs, obtaining a fairly consistent picture across all specifications and elasticity concepts. More precisely, our results suggest a very limited degree of substitutability between factors in the production of hospital services (in particular, between beds and medical staff). These findings, consistent with previous evidence in the literature, suggest that a restructuring policy of the hospital industry which is confined to limiting the number of beds could not be a viable strategy for controlling the increase in public health care expenditure
Innovazione tecnologica nel settore lapideo Un’indagine sul distretto apuo-versiliese
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Osservatorio della filiera autoveicolare italiana, 2007. L'innovazione della filiera ed il suo consolidamento internazionale. La trasformazione continua
No full textOsservatorio della filiera autoveicolare italiana.Torino. STE