Aiello F, Cardamone P (2008) R&D Spillovers and firms’ performance in Italy. Evidence from a flexible production function. Empir Econ 34(1): 143–166.
Aiello F, Scoppa V (2000) Uneven regional development in Italy: explaining differences in productivity levels. Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia 59(2): 270–298.
- Aigner D, Chu S (1968) On estimating the industry production function. Am Econ Rev 58(4): 826–839.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Aigner D, Lovell CAK, Schmidt P (1977) Formulation and estimation of stochastic frontier production function models. J Econom 6(1): 21–37.
Aschauer DA (1989) Does public capital crowd out private capital?. J Monet Econ 24(2): 178–235.
Badunenko O, Henderson DJ, Zelenyuk V (2008) Technologicl change and transition: relative contributions to worldwide growth during the 1990s. Oxford Bull Econ Stat 70(4): 461–492.
Balk BM (2003) The residual: on monitoring and benchmarking firms, industries, and economies with respect to productivity. J Prod Anal 20(1): 5–47.
Baltagi BH, Pinnoi N (1995) Public capital stock and state productivity growth: further evidence from an error components model. Empir Econ 20(2): 351–359.
- Bank of Italy (2006) Considerazioni finali. Relazione sull’anno 2005. Rome.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Barro RJ (1990) Government spending in a simple model of endogenous growth. J Political Econ 98(5): S103–S125.
Battese GE, Coelli TJ (1995) A model for technical inefficiency effects in a stochastic frontier production function for panel data. Empir Econ 20(2): 325–332.
- Becker GS (1975) Human capital, 2nd edn. National Bureau of Economic Research and Columbia University Press, New York.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Benhabib J, Spiegel MM (1994) The role of human capital in economic development. Evidence from aggregate crosscountry data. J Monet Econ 34(2): 143–173.
Bonaglia F, La Ferrara E, Marcellino M (2000) Public capital and economic performance: evidence from Italy. Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia 59(2): 221–244.
Bronzini R, Piselli P (2006) Determinants of lung-run regional productivity: the role of R&D, human capital and public infrastructure. Temi di Discussione Banca d’Italia No. 597.
Charnes A, Cooper W, Rhodes E (1978) Measuring the efficiency of decision making units. Eur J Oper Res 2(6): 429–444.
- Ciccone A (2004) Human capital as a factor of growth and employment at the regional level: the case of Italy. Report for the European Commission, DG for Employment and Social Affairs.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Coelli T, Rao DSP, Battese GE (1998) An introduction to efficiency and productivity analysis. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Dordrecht, London.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Daveri F, Jona-Lasinio C (2005) Italy’s decline: getting the facts right. Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia 64(4): 365–410.
Destefanis S (2000) Differenziali territoriali di produttività ed efficienza e sviluppo dualistico. Lavoro e relazioni industriali 7(2): 103–143.
Destefanis S, Sena V (2005) Public infrastructure and total factor productivity: new evidence from Italian Regions, 1970-98. Reg Stud 39(5): 603–617.
Di Liberto A, Pigliaru F, Mura R (2008) How to measure the unobservable: a panel technique for the analysis of TFP convergence. Oxford Econ Pap 60(2): 343–368.
- Faini R, Haskel J, Barba Navaretti G, Scarpa C, Wey C (2005) Contrasting Europe’s decline: do product market reforms help? Paper presented at the conference “Oltre il declinoâ€, Fondazione Rodolfo De Benedetti, February 2005 (revised July).
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Fan Y, Ullah A (1999) On goodness-of-fit tests for weakly dependent processes using kernel method. J Nonparametric Stat 11(3): 337–360.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Fare R, Grosskopf S, Norris M, Zhang Z (1994) Productivity growth, technical progress, and efficiency change in industrialized countries. Am Econ Rev 84(1): 66–83.
Greene WH (1990) A gamma-distributed stochastic frontier model. J Econom 46(1-2): 141–164.
Greenwood J, Jovanovic B (1990) Financial development, growth, and the distribution of income. J Political Econ 98(5): 1076–1107.
- Griliches Z (1979) Issues in assessing the contribution of R&D to productivity growth. Bell J Econ 10(1): 92–116.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Grossman G, Helpman E (1991) Innovation and growth in the global economy. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Guiso L, Sapienza P, Zingales L (2004) Does local financial development matter?. Q J Econ 119(3): 929–969.
Henderson DH, Kumbhakar SC (2006) Public and private capital productivity puzzle: a nonparametric approach. Southern Econ J 73(1): 219–232.
Hicks J (1969) A theory of economic history. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Holtz-Eakin D (1994) Public-sector capital and the productivity puzzle. Rev Econ Stat 76(1): 12–21.
- ISTAT (2004) La produttivit totale dei fattori. Anni 1993–2003. Rome.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- ISTAT (2005) Regional economic accounts (Conti Economici Regionali: 1980–2004). Rome.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Jayaratne J, Strahan PE (1996) The finance-growth nexus: evidence from bank branch deregulation. Q J Econ 111(3): 639–670.
- Jorgenson DW (1990) Productivity and economic growth. In: Berndt ER, Triplett JE (eds) Fifty years of economic measurement, studies in income and wealth, vol 54. National Bureau of Economic Research, Chicago.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
King RG, Levine R (1993a) Finance and growth: Schumpeter might be right. Q J Econ 108(3): 717–737.
- King RG, Levine R (1993b) Finance, entrepreneurship, and growth. J Monet Econ 32(3): 513–542.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Kodde D, Palm F (1986) Wald criteria for jointly testing equality and inequality restrictions. Econometrica 54(5): 1243–1248.
Koetter M, Wedow M (2006) Finance and growth in a bank-based economy: is it quantity or quality that matters?. Deutsche Bank Discussion paper No. 2.
Krugman P (1987) The narrow moving bank, The Dutch disease and the competitive consequences of Mrs. Thatcher: notes on trade in the presence of dynamic scale economies. J Dev Econ 27(1-2): 41–55.
Kumar S, Russell RR (2002) Technological change, technological catch-up, and capital deepening: relative contributions to growth and convergence. Am Econ Rev 92(3): 527–548.
Kumbhakar SC, Ghosh S, McGuckin JT (1991) A generalized production frontier approach for estimating determinants of inefficiency in US dairy farms. J Bus Econ Stat 9(3): 279–286.
- Kumbhakar SC, Lovell CAK (2000) Stochastic frontier analysis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
La Ferrara E, Marcellino M (2005) TFP, costs, and public infrastructure: an equivocal relationship. In: Artis M, Banerjee A, Marcellino M (eds) The central and eastern European countries and the European Union. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
La Porta R, Lopez-de-Silanes F, Shleifer A, Vishny RW (1998) Law and finance. J Political Econ 106(6): 1113–1155.
Levine R (1999) Law, finance, and economic growth. J Financ Intermed 8(1-2): 36–67.
Levine R (2005) Finance and growth: theory and evidence. In: Philippe A, Steven D (eds) Handbook of economic growth. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Levine R, Loayza N, Beck T (2000) Financial intermediation and growth: causality and causes. J Monet Econ 46(1): 31–77.
- Li Q (1996) Nonparametric testing of closeness between two unknown distribution functions. Econom Rev 15(3): 261–274.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Lovell CAK (1993) Production frontiers and production efficiency. In: Fried HO, Lovell CAK, Schmidt SS (eds) The measurement of productive efficiency. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Lucas RE Jr (1988) On the mechanics of economic development. J Monet Econ 22(1): 3–42.
Lucchetti R, Papi L, Zazzaro A (2001) Banks’ inefficiency and economic growth: a micro-macro approach. Scottish J Political Econ 48(4): 400–424.
Maffezzoli M (2006) Convergence across Italian regions and the role of technological catch-up. Top Macroecon 6(1) (Article 15).
- Malerba F (2004) Sectoral systems of innovation: how and why innovation differs across sectors. In: Fagerber J, Mowery D, Nelson R (eds) Handbook of innovation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Manning MJ (2003) Finance causes growth: can we be so sure?. Contributions Macroecon 3(1): 1–22.
Marrocu E, Paci R (2010) The effects of public capital on the productivity of the Italian regions. Appl Econ 42(8): 989–1002.
- Mastromarco C (2007) New evidence on the sources of OECD productivity growth, Working Paper, University of Salento, Italy.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Mastromarco C, Woitek U (2006) Public infrastructure investment and efficiency in Italian regions. J Prod Anal 25(1-2): 57–65.
Morrison CJ, Schwartz AE (1996) State infrastructure and productive performance. Am Econ Rev 86(5): 1095–1111.
- Munnel AH (1992) Policy watch: infrastructure investment and economic growth. J Econ Persp 6(4): 189–198.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Nadiri MI, Mamuneas TP (1994) The effects of public infrastructure and R&D capital on the cost structure and performance of U.S. manufacturing industries. Rev Econ Stat 76(1): 22–37.
- OECD (2007) OECD Economic Surveys: Italy, Paris (ISBN 978-92-64-033324-5).
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Parente S, Prescott E (2004) A unified theory of the evolution of international income levels. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Staff Report, 333.
Pavitt K (1984) Sectoral patterns of technical change: towards a taxonomy and a theory. Res Policy 13(6): 343–373.
Picci L (1999) Productivity and infrastructure in the Italian regions. Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia 58(3–4): 329–353.
Quah DT (1996) Empirics for economic growth and convergence. Eur Econ Rev 40(6): 1353–1375.
Reifschneider D, Stevenson R (1991) Systematic departures from the frontier: a framework for the analysis of firm efficiency. Int Econ Rev 32(3): 715–723.
Romer PM (1986) Increasing returns and long-run growth. Journal Political Econ 94(5): 1002–1037.
- Schumpeter J (1934) The theory of economic development. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Sena V (2006) The determinants of firms’ performance: can finance constraints improve technical efficiency?. Eur J Oper Res 172(1): 311–325.
Simar L, Wilson PW (1998) Sensitivity analysis of efficiency scores: how to bootstrap in nonparametric frontier models. Manag Sci 44(1): 49–61.
Simar L, Wilson PW (2000) A general methodology for bootstrapping in non-parametric frontier models. J Appl Stat 27(6): 779–802.
Tallman E, Wang P (1994) Human capital and endogenous growth: evidence from Taiwan. J Monet Econ 34(1): 101–124.
- van Ark B, O’Mahony M, Ypma G (eds) (2007) The EU KLEMS productivity report, WP2007-1. Policy Support and Anticipating Scientific nd Technologiacal Neeeds, European Commision.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
van den Broeck J, Koop G, Osiewalski J, Steel MFJ (1994) Stochastic frontier models: a bayesian perspective. J Econom 61(2): 273–303.
Zago A, Dongili P (2010) Credit quality and technical efficiency in banking. Empirical Economics. doi: 10.1007/s00181-010-0343-1 .