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    Regole, governance e struttura finanziaria della media impresa

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    AbstractThe recent evolution of Italian capitalism shows the increasing relevance of medium-sized enterprises (MSE) at three levels: the economic and institutional environment, the ownership structure and the financing policy. A comparison of the financial structure of Italian MSEs with some European countries, using BATCH data, shows their financial fragility, where the prevalence of debt over equity justifies the still strong and close relationship between control and management and the ancient bank-firm relationship based on short-term external finance and multiple business lending. These factors slow down firms' expansion and consequently the need for companies to grow so as to face the new global market. Finance is confirmed as a determinant of growth both in size and in organisation. Using Mediobanca data we verify that, as long as firms expand mainly by means of self-financing, growth will be limited and the organisation remains strongly family-based. We conclude that a pivotal role for the Italian firms' growth lies in a "revised" relationship between size, governance and firms' financial structure, especially in the perspective of the new rules introduced by the New Basel Accord. We show that their current asset and financial distress could be solved by promoting an adequate economic and institutional environment that really develops a market of firms' control. [...

    A Network Analysis of the Intersectoral Linkages Between Manufacturing and Other Industries in China and Italy

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    In recent years, the structural changes in global manufacturing and the economic crisis have sparked renewed interest in the role of manufacturing sector in driving economic development. Based on data from the World Input–Output Database (WIOD), this article uses network analysis (NA) to describe and compare inter-sectoral linkages between manufacturing and other sectors in two national economies, Italy and China, characterized by different stages of industrialization. The main metrics of the networks identified (at both node and network level) are discussed from an economic perspective. Besides confirming that manufacturing still has a fundamental role as the main source of demand for other economic activities in both countries, results highlight some fundamental differences in the structural characteristics of inter-sectoral linkages between China and Italy. Our exploratory analysis provides policymakers a complementary framework to illustrate backward and forward linkage effects, as well as potential knowledge and technology flows between industries. © 2019 Emerging Markets Forum

    A Network Analysis of the Intersectoral Linkages Between Manufacturing and Other Industries in China and Italy

    No full text
    In recent years, the structural changes in global manufacturing and the economic crisis have sparked renewed interest in the role of manufacturing sector in driving economic development. Based on data from the World Input–Output Database (WIOD), this article uses network analysis (NA) to describe and compare inter-sectoral linkages between manufacturing and other sectors in two national economies, Italy and China, characterized by different stages of industrialization. The main metrics of the networks identified (at both node and network level) are discussed from an economic perspective. Besides confirming that manufacturing still has a fundamental role as the main source of demand for other economic activities in both countries, results highlight some fundamental differences in the structural characteristics of inter-sectoral linkages between China and Italy. Our exploratory analysis provides policymakers a complementary framework to illustrate backward and forward linkage effects, as well as potential knowledge and technology flows between industries

    Performance e competitività: un’analisi Constant Market Share

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    This paper aims to investigate how competitiveness and structural factors have impacted on the dynamic of market shares in eight major world economies - China, France, Japan, Italy, Netherlands, The United Kingdom, The United States - over the period 1998-2007. To this end we apply the «constant market share» analysis by decomposing the growth in the exports of manufacturing sectors into five separate components according to the formulation suggested by Fagerberg and Sollie (Fagerberg and Sollie, 1987). In the empirical analysis we also use a sector breakdown following Pavitt's (1984) taxonomy, in order to highlight the relationship between innovation activities and export performance. Our main findings suggest that although Italian market shares have decreased both in the traditional sectors and specialized suppliers, the foreign trade structure is still strongly linked to these industries
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