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The effects of environmental policies on the abatement investment decisions of a green firm (with Giuseppe Travaglini), Resource and Energy Economics (2011)

This paper focuses on environmental policies aimed at

rising investment in pollution abatement capital. We...

 

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Firing costs and labor market tightness: Is there any relationship? (with Riccardo Tilli), Research in Economics (2011)

Empirical evidence suggests the existence of a negative relationship between rigidities on the labor market...

 

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The productivity slowdown puzzle. Technological and non technological shocks in the labor market (with Giuseppe Travaglini), International Economic Journal (2009)

In this paper we address the question of whether labor supply shifts are the only...

 

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Financial and labor market imperfections and investment (with Giorgio Calcagnini and Germana Giombini), Economics Letters (2009)

This paper analyses how financial and labor market imperfections jointly influence investment. The contemporaneous presence...

 

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The role and significance of endogenous firing costs in a matching model with endogenous job destruction (with Riccardo Tilli), JOURNAL OF SOCIO-ECONOMICS (2009)

Traditional models of the labor market assume fixed firing costs. This paper explores the implications...

 

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Do labor market conditions affect the strictness of employment protection legislation? (with Riccardo Tilli), ECONOMICS BULLETIN (2008)

We provide a theoretical microfoundation for the negative relationship between firing costs and labor market...

 

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Risk Aversion, Intertemporal Substitution, and the Aggregate Investment-uncertainty Relationship (with Davide Ticchi), JOURNAL OF MONETARY ECONOMICS (2007)

We analyze the role of risk aversion and intertemporal substitution in a simple dynamic general...

 

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The effects of future financing constraints on capital accumulation: Some new results on the constrained investment problem (with Giuseppe Travaglini), Research in Economics (2006)

In this paper, we study the effects of future constraints on current investment decisions. Unlike...

 

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The effects of future financing constraints on capital accumulation: some new results on the constrained investment problem (with Giuseppe Travaglini), Research in Economics (2006)

In this paper we study the effects of future constraints on current investment decisions. Unlike...

 

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Risk-aversion and the investment-uncertainty relationship: a comment (with Davide Ticchi), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2005)

This paper shows that the solution of Nakamura’s [Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 38...

 

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Labor Market Performance and Flexibility: Which Comes First? (with Riccardo Tilli), The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics (2004)

We use a matching framework to explore the hypothesis that firing costs are a decreasing...

 

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Households' Intertemporal Choice and the Duration of Fiscal Policies: Medium Run Non-Keynesian Effects (with Giorgio Rodano), Ekonomia (2003)

In this paper we study the effects of fiscal policies on current consumption, distinguishing between...

 

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How Do Future Constraints Affect Current Investment? (with Giuseppe Travaglini), The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics (2003)

In this paper we build up a theoretical continuous time model to study how future...

 

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Multiple attractors and global bifurcations in a Kaldor-type business cycle model (with Gian Italo Bischi, Roberto Dieci, and Giorgio Rodano), Journal of Evolutionary Economics (2001)

We consider a Kaldor-type discrete-time nonlinear business cycle model in income and capital, where investment...

 

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Investment and uncertainty: is there a potential role for a common European policy? (with Giorgio Calcagnini), Economics Letters (2001)

This paper contributes to the long-running debate on the relationship between uncertainty and investment. Our...

 

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Financial Constraints and Investment decisions (with Giuseppe Travaglini), Scottish Journal of Political Economy (2001)

In what follows we show that liquidity constraints can affect a firm's investment even when...

 

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Real and financial uncertainty and investment decisions (with Giorgio Calcagnini), Journal of Macroeconomics (2000)

This paper aims at analyzing the role of uncertainty on investment. In our analysis we...

 

Books

L'economia italiana del nuovo millennio (with Giuseppe Travaglini) (2009)
 

Le radici del declino economico (The roots of Economic Decline) (with Giuseppe Travaglini) (2006)

In this bookwe argue that the slowdown in labor productivity and not the low contribution...

 

Contributions to Books

Optimal abatement investment and environmental policies under pollution uncertainty (with Giuseppe Travaglini), Frontiers of Economic Growth and Development (2011)
 

Behavioral Portfolio Choice and Disappointment Aversion (with Giuseppe Travaglini), Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics, Finance and Social Sciences: Essays in Honour of John Barkley Rosser Jr (2010)

The standard portfolio model predicts a large equity position for most

households. Empirical evidence shows...

 

Investment, Productivity and Employment in the Italiana Economy (with Giuseppe Travaglini and Clifford Wymer), The Economics of Imperfect Markets (2010)