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, at the Sience Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Brighton, and at the Instituto Complutence de Estudios Internacionales, Madrid.
Published Articles
Technology adoption and innovation in public services. The case of e-government in Italy (with Davide Arduini, Federico Belotti, Mario Denni, and Gerolamo Giungato), Information Economics and Policy (2010)
Using data from 1176 Italian municipalities in 2005, we identify factors associated with the development...
Who trades with whom? Exploring the links between firm’s international activities, skills and wages (with Francesco Serti and Chiara Tomasi), Review of International Economics (forthcoming) (2010)
Using firm level data on the Italian manufacturing industry, we examine how trade activities are...
"Multinational firms, global value chains and the organisation of knowledge transfer" (with Federica Saliola), Research Policy (2009)
This paper combines insights from different streams of literature to develop a more comprehensive framework...
National boundaries and the location of multinational firms in Europe (with Roberto Basile and Davide Castellani), Papers in Regional Science (2009)
Using data on 5,102 subsidiaries established in the period 1991-1999, we examine the location choice...
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...
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
Multinationality and innovative behaviour in Italian manufacturing firms”. (with Davide Castellani), Technological Change and Economic Catch-up. (2005)
Unpublished Papers
The Gravity of R&D FDIs (with Davide Castellani and Alfredo Jimenez Palmero) (2011)
The gravity model predicts that international trade and FDI should fade with geographic distance. The...
A double network approach to international production (with Roberto Schiattarella) (2010)
This paper builds on appreciative theorizing that has emerged in the literature over the past...
Multinational firms and the pursuit of social benefits, Working papers of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics (W-EMS) (2010)
It is argued that a new actor is emerging in international business, namely “Social Multinationals”,...
Exporters, Importers and Two-way traders: The links between internationalization, employment and wages (with Francesco Serti and Chiara Tomasi), Working paper LEM 5/08 (2008)
How are trade activities related to firms’ employment and wages structures? Using firm level data...
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...