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The role of inter-organizational proximity on the evolution of the European Aerospace R&D collaboration network
No full textWP 02/14; The influence exerted by five dimensions of inter-organizational proximity (geographical, organizational, network, institutional and technological) on the evolution of the collaboration networks subsidized by the European Union Framework Programmes in the Aerospace sector is studied. The role of the proximity dimensions is controlled by means of a longitudinal analysis with a stochastic actor-oriented model, which will be run on four observations of the network starting in the fourth (1994-1998) and ending in the seventh Framework Programme (2007-2013). Results show that organizational proximity is the most important driver for the longitudinal evolution of the network. Further, this form of proximity is constant in time, analogously to the geographical one which, on its side, only moderately affects network's evolution. Network proximity plays a weak but positive influence, while the institutional and technological dimensions do not affect the evolution of the network. Anyway, when proximity is evaluated on single institutional and technological types, different roles are detected. Regarding the former, research centres have a preference for inter-organizational mixing, while firms prefer to cooperate with firms. As for the latter, a repulsive tendency among system integrators is appreciated. Organizations' patenting activity, introduced as a control variable, does not play a significant role on network's evolutio
Explaining the efficiency of Italian car suppliers during the crisis
No full textWP 06/14; This empirical study, focused on the Italian automotive sector during the recent international crisis, detects technical performance of firms using Data Envelopment Analysis. We pay specific attention to the role along the supply chain, to size and to vertical structure of firms. In particular, this study highlights how the recent crisis stimulates a deep process of re-organization, re-location and re-thinking of firms' position along the value chain but, in particular, the crisis stresses the pre-existing heterogeneity among firms. The technical frontier is driven by firms able to contribute to the technology, which represents essential link of the automotive value chain. Those firms are large, vertically disintegrated and operate in metals, plastic or machiner
Conoscere Torino, 2014-2015. Discover Torino. Socio-economic profile of the province
No full textStudi, statistica e documentazione. Conoscere Torino.Torino. STE
Torino congiuntura, 2014. Trimestrale giugno 2014, Anno 15, n. 55. Analisi congiunturale gennaio-marzo 2014
No full textStudi, statistica e documentazione. Torino congiuntura.Torino. STE
Torino congiuntura, 2014. Trimestrale dicembre 2014, Anno 15, n. 57. Analisi congiunturale luglio-settembre 2014
No full textStudi, statistica e documentazione. Torino congiuntura.Torino. STE
Informaires. La cooperazione municipale a Torino.N.45, marzo 2014
No full textSemestrale dell'Istituto di Ricerche Economico Sociali del Piemont
Trial evaluation: conclusive lessons from Essence case studies
No full textRT 57; Several cyber-security frameworks have been developed to protect critical infrastructures from cyber-attacks, but it was rather difficult to anticipate costs and benefits of their adoption, although worldwide experience had shown that both are huge. This report summarises the results of the ESSENCE project, discussing the methodology used in the case-studies, and discusses the open issues and the policy implications. The analysisn clearly shows that from a mere economic viewpoint, electric companies have no incentive to increase their security levels, as the annual costs of those countermeasures is much greater than their direct cost of the economic losses derived from a single blackout. However the total cost of an event for the society as a whole is by far greater than the annual cost of the said countermeasure
Gender inequalities and labour integration. An integrated approach to vocational training in Piedmont
No full textWP 07/14; Public policies are even more interested in vocational training issues, because spillovers fall on the labour market, and then on life quality. Reports of the European Commission registered that women are disadvantaged subjects on the labour market but, at the same time, they are more ambitious and are at their best on the educational side. This paper aims at analysing data of Piedmont Region on vocational training policies, focusing on the role of women into the labour market. Data refer to subjects that accomplished their training course during 2011. Analyses have been performed on interviews, in order to evaluate the effects of training on medium-term employment outcomes of trainees. A control sample has been selected with the aim to evaluate the effect of training, with a special focus on women. Probit models and average marginal effects (AMEs) allow authors to estimate the net impact of training into the labour market. Results suggest that the employment gap between men and women is completely recovered in trainees, also when considering qualitative aspects of employmen
Mapping the environmental pressure due to economic factors. The case of Italian coastal municipalities
No full textWP 10/14; In this paper we map the main economics characteristics that may impact the environment of the Italian coastal municipalities. The mapping aims at quantitatively characterizing the main characteristics of the coastal municipalities from the point of view of sector specialization. More in details, in this work, first we briefly quantified settlement pressure on the Italian coasts, then we provide a detailed analysis of economic specializations by sectors of coastal municipalities. Finally, we develop a more specific analysis on the specialization and dependence of coastal municipalities. This latter study is based on the classification of two specific groups of economic sectors: i) those that depend on the sea as the primary source input (tangible and intangible) and ii) those that do not depend on the sea but that have high environmental pressures. This second set of sectors can have adverse impacts, direct and indirect, on the marine and coastal environment - and consequently on the ‘marine' sectors. We then provide evidence of the relationship between sectors depending from the sea, i.e. ‘marine' sectors and sectors that have a high pressure on the environment, i.e. ‘high pressure' sectors in coastal municipalities. The analysis is based on municipal data of the Census of Industry and Services of 2011 provided by ISTAT on seven selected Italian regions: Campania, Emilia Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Apulia, Sardinia and Veneto. The choice fell on them because of their regional peculiarities in terms of length of coastal territory, number of coastal municipalities and ratio between coastal areas and hinterland area
Debt capacity bancaria e credit crunch: alcune osservazioni empiriche
No full textWP 23/14; The financial crisis has emphasized the importance of the credit crunch in constraining the financing of the firms. The debt capacity from banks is defined as the maximum amount of debt that the banks are available to grant to companies. Using annual report's data and information from Centrale dei Rischi of Bank of Italy on a set of 321 industrial firms some econometric models on bank overdrafts have been estimated. Applying the models estimated on 2009 data to 2011 data has been obtained an appraisal of the credit crunch between 14% and 15% of the total bank lending to these companie