Antonello Zanfei is currently full professor of Industrial Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Urbino, Italy. He was lecturer of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan and visiting professor at the Department of Economics and at the Center for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University, at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, at the Bureau d'Economie Theorique et Appliquée, Université L.Pasteur, Strasburg, at the Southbank University, London, at the Institute for International Integration Studies, Dublin, and at the Instituto Complutence de Estudios Internacionales, Madrid.
Published Articles
Location choices of multinational firms in Europe: The role of EU cohesion policy (with Roberto Basile and Davide Castellani), Journal of International Economics (2008)
Using data on 5,509 foreign subsidiaries established in 50 regions of 8 EU countries over...
Internationalization, innovation and productivity: How do firms differ in Italy (with Davide Castellani), The World Economy (2007)
This paper addresses the issue of intra-industry heterogeneity and internationalisation. We show that, after controlling...
Globalisation at bay? Multinational growth and technology spillover, Critical perspectives on international business (2005)
The paper focuses on a specific aspect of globalisation, namely the growing role of transnational...
Choosing international linkage strategies in electronics industry. The role of multinational experience (with Davide Castellani), Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation (2004)
This paper examines how different aspects of multinational experience affect the choice of international linkage...
Technology Gaps, Absorptive Capacity and the Impact of Inward Investments on Productivity of European firms (with Davide Castellani), Economics of Innovation and New Technology (2003)
Using a balanced panel of firm-level data on the manufacturing industry in France, Italy and...
Books
Multinational firms, innovation and productivity (with Davide Castellani) (2006)
This book gets to the root of how and why multinational firms differ in the...
Contributions to Books
Unpublished Papers
Exporters, Importers and Two-way traders: The links between internationalization, employment and wages (with Francesco Serti and Chiara Tomasi), ” Working papers of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics (W-EMS) (2008)
How are trade activities related to firms’ employment and wages structures? Using firm level data...
Multinational firms, global value chains and the organisation of knowledge transfer (with Federica Saliola), Working papers of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics (W-EMS), http://ideas.repec.org/s/urb/wpaper.html (2008)
This paper combines insights from different streams of literature to develop a more comprehensive framework...
Exports and Productivity – Comparable Evidence for 14 Countries (with International Study Group on Exports and Productivity - Coordinated by Joachim Wagner), Licos Discussion Paper 192/2007, Leuven University (2007)
We use comparable micro level panel data for 14 countries and a set of identically...
The links between international production and innovation: A double network approach, Working papers of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics (W-EMS) (2007)
This paper examines the changing role of multinationals in the global generation, adoption and transfer...