Massimo Del Gatto

RESEARCH

 

 

Drafts/Recent Working Papers

 

-        Robots versus labor skills: a complementarity/substitutability analysis (with Michele Battisti, Christopher Parmeter, Francesco Gravina), CRENoS WP, 2021/04 [LINK];

 

 

Articles

 

-        Skill-Biased Technical Change and Labor Market Inefficiency (with M. Battisti and C. Parmeter), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2022, 139 [LINK];

 

-        Geographical and Cultural Patterns in cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions: the role of Experience (with Carlo S. Mastinu), Spatial Economic Analysis, 2021, 164(4) [LINK]

[Cultural distance (data and STATA codes) – Bilateral distance matrix - Replication package]

 

-        Is the productivity premium of internationalized firms technology-driven? Unbundling technology and TFP at the firm-level (with M. Battisti and F. Belloc), Empirical Economics, Special Issue on Applications of Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, S.C. Kumbhakar, C.F. Parmeter, E. Malikov Eds., 2020 [LINK];

 

-        Labour productivity and firm-level tfp with technology-specific production functions (with M. Battisti and F. Belloc), Review of Economic Dynamics, 35, 2020 [PDF] [SLIDES] [BLOG]

WP version:

-     Labour productivity and firm-level tfp with technology-specific production functions (with M. Battisti and F. Belloc), ESCoE Discussion Paper, 02-2019 [PDF]

 

-        Company Profits in Italy (with Fadi Hassan, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Fabiano Schivardi), European Commission Discussion Paper, 93, 2019; [LINK]

 

-        Global Productivity Puzzles and Misallocation, an Italian Tale (with Sara Calligaris, Fadi Hassan, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Fabiano Schivardi), Economic Policy, 33(96), 2018 [PDF];

 

-        A Huff model with firm heterogeneity and selection. Application to the Italian retail sector, Spatial Economic Analysis, 13(4), 442–456, 2018 [PDF];

 

-        The revealed cost competitiveness of changing trade patterns: A country-sector exercise, International Economics, Special Issue on “Firms, Trade and Productivity: empirical analysis based on recent theoretical advances”, 154, 3-22, 2018 [PDF];

 

-        Labor productivity growth: disentangling technology and capital accumulation (with Michele Battisti and Christopher F. Parmeter), Journal of Economic Growth, 23 (1), 2018 [PDF]

Previous versions:

-        Labor productivity growth: disentangling technology and capital accumulation (with Michele Battisti and Christopher F. Parmeter), University of Miami WP, 2014, No.2 [PDF];

 

-        Geography, Cultural Remoteness and the Second Nature of within-country Economic Development: Do Island Regions lag behind? (with Carlo S. Mastinu), Regional Studies, 52(2), 2018; [PDF]

[Supplemental material] [Linguistic Index (data and STATA codes) – Bilateral distance matrix - Replication package]

 

-        Export Participation and Misallocation after The Financial Crisis: Evidence from Italy (with Sara Calligaris, Fadi Hassan, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Fabiano Schivardi), Rivista di Politica Economica (Special Issue on “Global value chains, trade networks and firm performance: international evidence and the Italian case”), VII-IX/2016 [PDF]

 

-        Italy’s Productivity Conundrum. A Study on Resource Misallocation in Italy (with Sara Calligaris, Fadi Hassan, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Fabiano Schivardi), European Commission Discussion Paper, 30, 2016; [LINK] [VOXEU]

 

-        Unbundling Technology adoption and TFP at the Firm Level: do Intangibles Matter? (with Michele Battisti and Filippo Belloc), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (JEMS), 24(2), 386-410, 2015; [PDF]

Previous versions:

-        Unbundling Technology adoption and TFP at the Firm Level: do Intangibles Matter? (with Michele Battisti and Filippo Belloc), FEEM WP, 98, 2012; [PDF]

-        Unbundling Technology adoption and TFP at the Firm Level: do Intangibles Matter? (with Michele Battisti and Filippo Belloc), CRENoS WP, 32, 2012; [PDF]

-        Unbundling Technology adoption and TFP at the Firm Level: do Intangibles Matter? (with Michele Battisti and Filippo Belloc), RCEA WP, 71, 2012; [PDF]

 

-        The Revealed Competitiveness of U.S. Exports (with Filippo di Mauro, Joseph Gruber and Benjamin Mandel), FRB International Finance Discussion Papers, 1026, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.), Washington, D.C., 2011; [PDF]

Other versions:

-        The Revealed Competitiveness of U.S. Exports (with Filippo di Mauro, Joseph Gruber and Benjamin Mandel), CRENoS WP, 32, 2012; [PDF]

 

-        The Structural Determinants of the U.S. Competitiveness in the Last Decades: a 'Trade-revealing' Analysis (with Filippo di Mauro, Joseph Gruber and Benjamin Mandel), ECB Working Paper, n. 1443, European Central Bank, 2012; [PDF]

 

-        Examining the Decline in the US Export Share (with Filippo di Mauro, Joseph Gruber and Benjamin Mandel), in Filippo di Mauro and Benjamin Mandel (eds), Recovery and beyond. Lessons for Trade Adjustment and Competitiveness, European Central Bank e-book, 2011; [PDF]

 

-        Productivity and Firm Selection: Quantifying the “New” Gains from Trade (with Gregory Corcos, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Giordano Mion), The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, 122(561), 754-798, 2012; [VOXEU] [PDF]

Previous versions:

-        Productivity and Firm Selection: Quantifying the “New” Gains from Trade (with Gregory Corcos, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Giordano Mion), Nota di lavoro FEEM, 2009, 115.

 

-        Productivity and Firm Selection: Quantifying the “New” Gains from Trade (with Gregory Corcos, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Giordano Mion), KITeS Working Paper, 2009, 02.

 

-        Productivity and Firm Selection: Quantifying the “New” Gains from Trade (with Gregory Corcos, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Giordano Mion), SERC Discussion Papers, Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE, 2009, 0028.

 

-        Measuring productivity (with Adriana Di Liberto and Carmelo Petraglia), Journal of Economic Surveys, 25(5), pp. 952–1008, 2011; [PDF]

Other versions:

-        Measuring productivity (with Adriana Di Liberto and Carmelo Petraglia), CRENoS Working paper, 2008/18.

-        Measuring productivity (with Adriana Di Liberto and Carmelo Petraglia), IAREG Working paper, 2009, 5/01.

 

-      Openness to Trade and Industry Cost Dispersion: Evidence from a Panel of Italian Firms (with Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Marcello Pagnini), Journal of Regional Science, 2008, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 97–129.

Other versions:

-      Openness to Trade and Industry Cost Dispersion. Evidence from a Panel of Italian Firms (with Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Marcello Pagnini), 2007, CEPR discussion paper, No. 6336.

-      Openness to Trade and Industry Cost Dispersion. Evidence from a Panel of Italian Firms (with Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Marcello Pagnini), Banca d’Italia, Temi di discussione, 2007, No. 635. [PDF]

 

-      Productivity and Firm Selection: Intra- vs International Trade (with Gregory Corcos, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Giordano Mion), CORE Discussion paper, 2007, 60. [PDF]

Other versions:

-      Productivity and Firm Selection: Intra- vs Inter-national Trade (with Gregory Corcos, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Giordano Mion), CRENoS Working paper, 2007/06;

 

-      Trade integration, firm-selection and the costs of non-Europe (with Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano e Giordano Mion), 2006. CEPR discussion paper, No. 5730.

Other versions:

-      Trade Integration, Firm Selection and the Costs of Non-Europe (with Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano e Giordano Mion), CRENoS Working paper, 2007/03;

-      Trade, Productivity and Firm Selection: Gauging the impact of European Integration from Firm-Level Data (with Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano e Giordano Mion), CORE Discussion paper, 2006, 61.

-      Trade integration, firm-selection and the costs of non-Europe (with Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano e Giordano Mion), Centro Studi d'Agliano Working paper, 2006, 218. [PDF]

 

-      The competitiveness of Italian firms: the source of the trouble  (with G.I.P. Ottaviano and Marcello Pagnini), Review of Economic Conditions in Italy, 1, 2005. [PDF]

Italian version:

-      La competitività delle imprese italiane: alle origini del malessere (with Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Marcello Pagnini), Economia Italiana, 1, 2005. [PDF]

 

-      Geographical Economics: a survey. Giornale degli Economisti, 63(2), 2004. [PDF]

 

-      Agglomeration, Integration, and Territorial Authority Scale in a System of Trading Cities. Central planning versus devolution. FEEM Working Papers, 94, 2004. Submitted. [PDF]

 

-      Politiche fiscali per la pesca in Italia: aspetti teorici ed empirici. QA – La Questione Agraria, FrancoAngeli, 1, 2002; [PDF]

 

-      Note sugli effetti economici degli strumenti di regolamentazione adottati dall'Unione Europea in materia di pesca. Rivista di Economia Agraria, Il Mulino ed., a. LI, n. 4, December 1996. [PDF]

 

 

Books

-     Trends di Economia Internazionale. Globalizzazione, investimenti e commercio estero. Rubbettino Editore, 2018 [LINK]. Graphs and figures (free download): [LINK]

 

 

Contributed chapters

-      “Imprese esportatrici, produttività e misallocazione” (with Sara Calligaris, Fadi Hassan, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Fabiano Schivardi), in L’Italia nell’Economia Internazionale, Rapporto ICE 2016-2017, Ch. 6 [PDF];

-      Examining the decline in the US export share (with Filippo di Mauro, Joseph Gruber and Benjamin Mandel). Ch. 11 in: "Recovery and Beyond: Lessons for Trade Adjustment and Competitiveness", European Central Bank, 2011; [PDF]

-      I Fattori di competitività. Ch. 5 in: Economia della Sardegna. 15° Rapporto CRENoS, CUEC, Cagliari, 2008 [PDF]

-      I Fattori di competitività. Ch. 3 in: Economia della Sardegna. 14° Rapporto CRENoS, CUEC, Cagliari, 2007 [PDF]

-      I Fattori di competitività. Ch. 3 in: Economia della Sardegna. 13° Rapporto CRENoS, CUEC, Cagliari, 2006 [PDF]

 

 

Other writings

-      On the spatial distribution of economic activities: Integration, Agglomeration, and Territorial Authority Scale. Phd thesis. 2003.

-      Considerazioni sulla politica della pesca nell’Unione Europea in relazione alle esternalità economiche. Biologia Marina Mediterranea, Vol. 5 – Issue 3, 1998 (Third Part). [PDF]

-      La regolamentazione della pesca tra gestione delle risorse e tutela delle imprese. Verso un nuovo paradigma. Laboratorio di Economia dell'ambiente - CEIS (Univ of Rome Tor Vergata), Rapporti/2, July 2001. [PDF]

-      On the role of structural aids and tax policies in sea-fishing management (with Nicola Rossi, Vincenzo Placenti and Massimo Spagnolo). Prepared for the XIII EAFE (European Association of Fisheries Economists) conference. 2001.

 

 

Blogs and Columns

-        Davvero la globalizzazione sarà la vittima illustre del Covid-19? LUISS Open, Editoriale, Giugno 2020 [LINK]

-        Making technological innovation work is key for labour productivity. ESCoE - Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence, Blogs, January 2019 [LINK];

-        Productivity and Firm Selection: Quantifying the “New” Gains from Trade. VOX EU - CEPR Policy Portal, July 2012; [LINK];

-        Italy’s Productivity Conundrum. A Study on Resource Misallocation in Italy. VOX EU - CEPR Policy Portal, June 2016; [LINK];

-        Sulle onde dei Big Data. Abruzzo Economia, settembre 2018, n.10 [LINK]

-        Fattori di produttività e competitività. 2007, L’altravoce.net [LINK]

 

Updated, Jan-24

 

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