Publications

• Corporate growth and industrial dynamics: evidence from French manufacturing" (2009) with G. Bottazzi, A. Coad and N. Jacoby, Applied Economics, forthcoming, doi: 10.1080/00036840802400454.
  

• "Productivity, profitability and financial performance"(2008) with G.Bottazzi and F.Tamagni, Industrial and Corporate Change, Industrial and Corporate Change, 17, 711-751.
  

• "Sectoral and geographical specificities in the spatial structure of economic activities"(2007) with G.Bottazzi, G.Dosi and G.Fagiolo, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 19, pp. 189-202, 2008.
  

• "Modeling industrial evolution in geographical space"(2007) with G.Bottazzi, G.Dosi and G.Fagiolo, Journal of Economic Geography, 7, 651-672.
  

• "Invariances and diversities in the evolution of Italian manufacturing industry"(2006) with G.Bottazzi, E.Cefis and G.Dosi, Small Business Economics, 29, 137-159.
  

• "Gibrat's Law and diversification"(2006) with G.Bottazzi, Industrial and Corporate Change, 15, 847-875.
  

• "Scale and technological factors in the diversification structure of business firms"(2006) with C.Castaldi and M.Milakovic, Economics Letters, 91, 117-121.
  

• "Explaining the distribution of firms growth rates"(2006) G.Bottazzi, RAND Journal of Economics, 37, 235-256.
  

• "Characterizing the production process: a disaggregated analysis of italian manufacturing firms"(2005) with G.Bottazzi and M.Grazzi, Rivista di Politica Economica, I-II, 243-270.
  

• "Growth and diversification patterns of the worldwide pharmaceutical industry"(2005) with G.Bottazzi, Review of Industrial Organization, 26, 195-216 .
  

• "Input output scaling relations in italian manufacturing firms "(2005) with G.Bottazzi and M.Grazzi, Physica A, 355, 95-102 .
  

• "Some statistical investigations on the nature and dynamics of electricity prices "(2005) with G.Bottazzi and S.Sapio, Physica A, 355, 54-61.
  

• "Why are distributions of firm growth rates tent-shaped ? "(2003) with G.Bottazzi, Economics Letters, 80, 415-420.
  

•  "A stochastic model of firm growth"(2003) with G.Bottazzi, Physica A, 324, 213-219.
  

•  "Common properties and sectoral specificities in the dynamics of U.S. manufacturing firms"(2003) with G.Bottazzi, Review of Industrial Organization, 23, 217-232.
  

• "Characterizing the production process: a disaggregated analysis of Italian manufacturing firms"(2006) with G.Bottazzi and M.Grazzi, in Capital Accumulation, Productivity and Growth, eds. M. Malgarini and G. Piga, Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
  

• "Self-reinforcing dynamics and the evolution of business firms"(2006) with G.Bottazzi, in Applied Evolutionary Economics and the Knowledge-Based Economy, eds. A. Pyka and H. Hanusch, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
  

• "The dynamics of growth and diversification of the large pharmaceutical companies"(2005) with G.Bottazzi and F.Pammolli, in Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution: the Case of Pharma-Biotech, eds. M. Mazzucato and G. Dosi, Cambridge University Press.
  

• "Crescita dell'impresa e struttura industriale: evidenze empiriche sull'industria manifatturiera italiana"(2003) joint with G.Bottazzi, E.Cefis and G.Dosi in  D. Delli Gatti e M. Gallegati (a cura di) Eterogeneita' degli agenti economici ed interazione sociale: teorie e verifiche empiriche, Il Mulino, Bologna.