Corriere della Sera on Investing in Women
Corriere della Sera has reported about “Investing in women: what women-led businesses in Italy and the UK need”. Here is the article.
Corriere della Sera on Investing in Women
Small and Medium Enterprises
La parità passa per l’accesso al credito
Leadershipfemminile.com on Investing in Women
Leadershipalfemminile.com on Investing in Women
Il Blog Leadershipfemminile.com reported about “Investing in women: what women-led businesses in Italy and the UK need”. Here is the article.
Credit Access in Latin American Enterprises
A chapter co-authored with Andrea Presbitero on firm access to bank credit in Latin America was published in Firm Innovation and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Engine of Economic Development edited by Matteo Grazzi and Carlo Pietrobelli. The paper is also published in Economic Notes.
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Clusters in the Caribbean – Understanding their characteristics, defining policies for their development
Regional Policy Dialogue on Science, Technology and Innovation – IADB -Barbados
I presented her study on Caribbean Clusters in Bridgetown at the IADB Regional Policy Dialogue.
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Is access to credit a constraint for Latin America enterprises? An empirical analysis with firm-level data
MOFiR WP #101
With Andrea Presbitero
An intense process of deregulation and financial liberalization in Latin America has increased competitive pressures and led to bank restructuring and consolidation. This paper looks at firm access to credit in the region, focusing on the role of credit market structure. Using firm-level data from theWorld Bank Enterprise Survey, we find that access to bank credit is very heterogeneous. On average, smaller and less productive firms are less likely to apply for credit and more likely to be financially constrained.
Barking up the wrong tree? Measuring gender gaps in firms’ access to finance
Journal of Development Studies, 50, 10, 1430-1444
The article is written in collaboration with Andrea Presbitero and Claudia Piras.
The literature on gender-based discrimination in credit markets is recently expanding but the results are not yet definitive. This paper exploits a new dataset on Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago and finds that more precise measures of the gender composition of the firm show that women-led businesses are more likely to be financially constrained than other comparable firms.
Credit access in Latin American enterprises
Inter-American Development Bank, Washington.
A paper on access to bank credit as one of the main constraints impairing firms’ growth, productivity, innovation, and export capacity has been presented at the seminar on Determinants of Firm Performance in LAC: What Does the Micro Evidence Tell Us?
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Definitions matter. Measuring gender gaps in firms’ access to credit
IADB discussion paper, 314, Inter American Development Bank, Washington.
With C. Piras and A. Presbitero
The literature on gender-based discrimination in credit markets is recently expanding but the results are not yet definitive and have not been generally agreed upon. This paper exploits a new dataset on Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, which provides detailed information about female ownership and management in firms for investigating the existence of a gender gap in access to finance. The evidence presented herein suggests that more precise measures of the gender composition of the firm show that women-led businesses are more likely to be financially constrained than other comparable firms.
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Clusters and Value Chains: How they can help in the development of SMEs in Abu Dhabi
Department of Economic Development, Abu Dhabi.
Key Note speech in a seminar on clusters organised by the Department of Economic Development in Abu Dhabi.
Download the pdf, Pres AbuDhabi 2010-09
Federalismo e crescita: È possibile una relazione virtuosa?
Published by Franco Angeli
Edited with Stefania Lorenzini
Federalism is often described as a zero-sum game in which there is someone who gains and someone who loses, so the attention usually goes to issues about redistribution and equity. In this book, we assume a different perspective and investigate how federalism can facilitate growth and represent an opportunity for development. The papers collected here come from two different strands of the literature: the regional economic growth and its determinants and the analysis about federalism.
Italian SMEs and Industrial Districts on the move: where are they going?
European and Planning Studies, 17(1): 19-41
The paper is co-authored with Anna Carabelli and Giovanna Hirsch.
Since the second half of the 1990s the Italian economy has experienced a significant slowdown in the rate of economic growth. The ‘dwarfism’ of its manufacturing firms, their specialisation in traditional sectors and their organisation in industrial districts have been identified by many scholars as major structural weaknesses in the Italian industrial system. Nevertheless, there is a vast and flourishing empirical literature showing that many industrial districts are actually changing in terms of sector specialisation, international and innovation strategies and emergence of new forms of enterprise organisation. In this paper, we provide a critical survey of the new and different patterns of industrial organisation emerging in industrial districts.
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