Recent literature of industry dynamics has considered productivity as one of the main source of firm heterogeneity that determines firm performance and growth. The goal of the first chapter on my thesis is to consider ...

The purpose of the dissertation is to shed light on the iterative nature of management earnings forecasts characteristics by means of a new measure of consistency and to provide empirical evidence on both the cross-sectional ...

In questa tesi studiamo alcuni problemi legati a modelli Markov Switching (MS) e alle loro applicazioni in Economia e Finanza. Lo scopo del nostro studio è proporre soluzioni per la selezione del modello e per la stima di ...

The thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter we study a communicationgame played by three agents with conflicting and state independent preferences. Each possible outcome of the game uniquely corresponds to ...

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the real effects of tax avoidance. I survey three main areas of the literature: (1) capital structure choices, (2) investments and cash holdings, (3) investors’ valuation. In ...

The overall motivation of this research is to understand the adoption of sustainable innovations and sustainable behavior, with a focus on sustainable mobility-related behaviors. Contrary to the organizational adoption, ...

This dissertation consists of three independent essays that explore the non-monetary aspects on the cooperative behaviours. In the first essay, I analyse the effect of social interaction on the decision to contribute to ...