CentER

Publications

"Entrepreneurship, Firm Entry, and the Taxation of Corporate Income: Evidence from Europe" (with Marina Di Giacomo and Alessandro Sembenelli), forthcoming, Journal of Public Economics.

"Corporate Taxation and the Size of New Firms: Evidence from Europe" (with Marina Di Giacomo and Alessandro Sembenelli), Journal of the European Economic Associations (Papers and Proceedings), vol. 8 (2-3), 606-616, April-May 2010.

"What is the Role of Legal Systems in Financial Intermediation? Theory and Evidence " (with Laura Bottazzi and Thomas Hellmann ), Journal of Financial Intermediation, vol.18 (3), 559-598, October 2009..

"Who are the Active Investors? Evidence from Venture Capital" (with Laura Bottazzi and Thomas Hellmann), Journal of Financial Economics, vol.89, (3), pp 488-512, September 2008.

"Public Policy and the Creation of Active Venture Capital Markets" (with Giovanna Nicodano and Alessandro Sembenelli), Journal of Public Economics v.80 (8-9), 1699-723, September 2006.

"Banks as Catalysts for Industrialization" (with Thomas Hellmann) Journal of Financial Intermediation v.11 (4), 366-97, October 2002 (lead article). Winner of the 2002 Journal of Financial Intermediation Best Paper Prize.

"Venture Capital in Europe and the Financing of Innovative Firms," (with Laura Bottazzi) Economic Policy, v.34, 229-69, April 2002.

"Finance and Technology in Emerging Industrial Economies. The Role of Economic Integration," Research in Economics, v.51 (3), 171-200, September 1997 (lead article).

"Understanding the Development of German Kreditbanken, 1850-1914: an Approach from the Economics of Information," Financial History Review, v.3 (1), 29-47, April 1996.

Chapters in books

"Financial Systems and Corporate Strategy in the Chemical Industry," in Louis Galambos, Takashi Hikino, and Vera Zamagni (eds.) The Global Chemical Industry in the Age of the Petrochemical Revolution, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

"Financing European Entrepreneurial Firms: Facts, Issues and Research Agenda" (with Laura Bottazzi), in Christian Keuschnigg and Vesa Kanniainen (eds) Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2004 (lead chapter).

"Corporate Restructuring and R&D: A Panel Data Analysis for the Chemical Industry," (with Ashish Arora and Marco Ceccagnoli), in Fabrizio Cesaroni, Alfonso Gambardella and Walter Garcia-Fontes (eds.) R&D, Innovation, and Competitiveness in the European Chemical Industry, Dordrecht, Kluwer, 2004.

"Venture Capital and the Growth of Innovative Firms in Europe" (with Laura Bottazzi) in Guido Corbetta, Morten Huse, and Davide Ravasi (eds.) Crossroads of Entrepreneurship, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academics, 2004.

"Finance and the Chemical Industry," in Ashish Arora, Ralph Landau, Nathan Rosenberg, (eds.) Chemicals and Long-term Economic Growth, New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1998

Policy papers

"Research, Patents and the Financing of Ideas: Why is the EU Growth Potential so Low?" (with Laura Bottazzi and Francesco Giavazzi), presented at the first meeting of the Group or Economic Advisers to the President of the European Commission, December 2001. Published in André Sapir and Mario Nava (eds), Economic Policy-making in the European Union, Bruxelles, European Commission, 2003.

Other publications

"The Changing Face of the European Venture Capital Industry: Facts and Analysis," (with Laura Bottazzi and Thomas Hellmann) Journal of Private Equity, v.7 (2), 26-53, Spring 2004. Featured in the Special Report on venture capital of The Economist magazine, April 2nd, 2004.

The Law and Finance of Venture Capital Financing in Europe: Findings from the RICAFE Research Project," (with Ulrich Hege, Gerard Llobet, and Uwe Walz), forthcoming, European Business Organization Law Review.

"Finanziamento dell'innovazione in Europa e il ruolo dei Nuovi Mercati" (with Laura Bottazzi), in Giulio de Caprariis and Luigi Guiso (eds.) Finanza, diritto e crescita delle imprese, Milano, Il Sole24Ore, 2004.

"Il finanziamento della ricerca e dell'innovazione: problemi e nuove forme," (with Franco Malerba) in Alberto Quadrio Curzio, Marco Fortis and Giampaolo Galli (eds.) La Competitività dell'Italia: scienza, ricerca e innovazione, 207-25. Milano, Il Sole24Ore, 2001.

"Pubbliche o private? Il ruolo delle banche nel coordinamento strategico degli investimenti," (with Thomas Hellmann) in Beniamino Quintieri (ed.) Istituzioni, Finanza e Sviluppo Regionale, 67-112. Bologna, Il Mulino, 1997.