Work in Progress and Recent Working Papers

  • "Maximum likelihood tail estimation, goodness of fit and the size distribution of US-COMPUSTAT firms"
    • with Giulio Bottazzi

Articles in Refereed Journals and Collections

  • "Productivity, Profitability and Firm Growth: Dissecting the Empirics of Market Selection"
    in Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Industrial Dynamics and Evolutionary Economics (Eds: Cantner U., Guerzoni M. and S.Vannuccini), Edward Elgar, forthcoming October 2026
  • "Training and productivity in micro-firms", with Marco Rispoli
    Research Policy, forthcoming 2026
    • Available online HERE
  • "There are different shades of green: Heterogeneous environmental innovations and their effects on firm performance", with Gianluca Biggi and Andrea Mina
    Economics of Innovation and New Technology, forthcoming 2026
    • Available online HERE
  • "Firm-level bargaining and within-firm wage inequality: Evidence across Europe", with Valeria Cirillo and Matteo Sostero
    International Labour Review, 164(2), 2025
    • Available online HERE
  • "Pre-entry knowledge base complexity and post-entry growth: evidence from Italian firms", with Marco Guerzoni and Massimiliano Nuccio
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 33(1), 126-151, 2024
    • Available online HERE
  • "Persistence in firm growth: inference from conditional quantile transition matrices", with Giulio Bottazzi and Taewon Kang
    Small Business Economics, 61, 745-770, 2023
    • Open access available HERE
  • "Productivity dynamics in Italy: learning and selection", with Stefano De Santis and Jelena Reljic
    Rivista di Statistica Ufficiale/Review of Official Statistics, 1 (April), 9-31, 2022
    • Open access available HERE
  • "The impact of including standards-related documentation in patent prior art: evidence from an EPO policy change", with Rudi Bekkers and Arianna Martinelli
    Research Policy, 49(7), 2020
    • Open access available HERE
  • "Long-term firm growth: an empirical analysis of US manufacturing 1959-2015", with Giovanni Dosi, Marco Grazzi, Daniele Moschella and Gary Pisano
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 29(2), 309-332, 2020
    • Available online HERE
  • "Persistence of innovation and patterns of firm growth", with Dario Guarascio
    Research Policy, 48(6), 1493-1512, 2019 [PDF]
  • "Persistent high-growth firms in China's manufacturing", with Daniele Moschella and Xiaodan Yu
    Small Business Economics, 52(3), 573-594, 2019 [PDF]
  • "Innovation Complementarities and Firm Growth", with Stefano Bianchini and Gabriele Pellegrino
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 27(4), 657-676, 2018 [PDF]
  • "Innovation and within-firm wage inequalities: empirical evidence from major European countries", with Valeria Cirillo and Matteo Sostero
    Industry and Innovation, 24(5), 468-491, 2017
  • "What does (not) characterize persistent corporate high-growth?", with Stefano Bianchini and Giulio Bottazzi
    Small Business Economics, 48(3), 633-656, 2017
  • "Export price adjustments under financial constraints", with Angelo Secchi and Chiara Tomasi
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 49(3), 1057-1085, 2016
  • "Financial constraints and firm exports: accounting for heterogeneity, self-selection and endogeneity", with Angelo Secchi and Chiara Tomasi
    • Industrial and Corporate Change, 25(5), 813-827, 2016.
  • "Productivity, market selection and corporate growth across US and Europe", with Giovanni Dosi, Daniele Moschella and Emanuele Pugliese
    • Small Business Economics, 45(3), 643-672, 2015.
  • "Zipf Law and the Firm Size Distribution: a critical discussion of popular estimators", with Giulio Bottazzi and Davide Pirino
    • Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 25(3), 585-610, 2015.
  • "The micro patterns of export diversification under financial constraints", with Angelo Secchi and Chiara Tomasi
    • Industrial and Corporate Change, 23(6), 1595-1622, 2014.
  • "Financial Constraints and Firm Dynamics", with Giulio Bottazzi and Angelo Secchi
    • Small Business Economics, 42(1), 99-116, 2014.
  • "Growth Processes of Italian Manufacturing Firms", with Alex Coad and Rekha Rao
    • Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 22(1), 54-70, 2011.
  • "Big and Fragile: When Size does not Shield from Default", with Giulio Bottazzi
    • Applied Economics Letters, 18(14), 1401-1404, 2011.
  • "Financial and Economic Determinants of Firm Default", with Giulio Bottazzi, Marco Grazzi and Angelo Secchi
    • Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 21(3), 373-406, 2011.
  • "Corporate performances and market selection. Some comparative evidence", with Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanni Dosi, Nadia Jacoby and Angelo Secchi
    • Industrial and Corporate Change, 19(6), 1953-1996, 2010.
  • "Productivity, Profitability and Financial Performance", with Giulio Bottazzi and Angelo Secchi
    • Industrial and Corporate Change, 17(4), 711-751, 2008.
  • "The evolution of world export sophistication and the Italian trade anomaly", with Michele Di Maio
    • Rivista di Politica Economica, 98(1), 135-174, 2008. [PDF]
  • "L'anomalia del modello di specializzazione italiano e l'evoluzione del commercio internazionale: una analisi quantitativa", with Michele Di Maio
    • QA-Rivista Associazione Rossi-Doria, n. 3/4, 79-103, 2008.
  • "Un'analisi empirica delle relazioni tra crescita d'impresa, produttivita' e profittabilita' ", with Angelo Secchi
    • in L. Rondi and F. Silva (eds.), "Produttivita' e cambiamento nel sistema produttivo italiano. Indagini Quantitative" , Il Mulino, Bologna, 2009.
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Old or now published Working Papers

  • Export activities under financial constraints: margins, switching dynamics and prices
    with Angelo Secchi and Chiara Tomasi
    • LEM Working Paper Series, n. 2011/24 [PDF]
  • Financial Constraints and Firm Dynamics
    with Giulio Bottazzi and Angelo Secchi
    • DSE-University of Pisa Discussion Papers, n. 2010/99 [PDF]
  • Is Bigger Always Better? The effect of Size on Default
    with Giulio Bottazzi
    • LEM Working Paper Series, n. 2010/07 [PDF]
  • Corporate performances and market selection. Some comparative evidence
    with Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanni Dosi, Nadia Jacoby and Angelo Secchi
    • LEM Working Paper Series, n. 2009/13 [PDF]
  • Financial and Economic Determinants of Firm Default
    with Giulio Bottazzi, Marco Grazzi and Angelo Secchi
    • LEM Working Paper Series, n. 2009/06 [PDF]
  • Growth Processess of Italian Manufacturing Firms
    with Alex Coad and Rekha Rao
    • First Version: Jena Economic Research Papers, n. 2008-039 [PDF]
    Last Version: LEM Working Paper Series, n. 2008/20 [PDF]
  • Assessing the Impact of Credit Ratings and Economic Performance on Firm Default
    with Giulio Bottazzi, Marco Grazzi and Angelo Secchi
    • LEM Working Paper Series, n. 2007/15 [PDF]
  • Financial Fragility and Growth Dynamics of Italian Business Firms
    with Giulio Bottazzi and Angelo Secchi
    • LEM Working Paper Series, n. 2006/07 [PDF]
  • Productivity, Profitability and Financial Fragility: Empirical Evidence from Italian Business Firms
    with Giulio Bottazzi and Angelo Secchi
    • LEM Working Paper Series, n. 2006/08 [PDF]
  • The Evolution of World Trade and the Italian 'Anomaly': A New Look
    with Michele Di Maio
    • CENTRO STUDI LUCA D'AGLIANO, Development Studies Working Papers [PDF]