Eterogeneità delle imprese e stagnazione del capitalismo italiano
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Keywords
Firm Heterogeneity; Productivity; Profit; Misallocation; Capabilities; Institutions; Italy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-KNM-2018-07-09 (Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy)
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