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"The optimality of public–private partnerships under financial and fiscal constraints"

Authors:Marco Buso - Department of Economics and Management, University of PaduaLuciano Greco - Department of Economics and Management, University of Padua Government tasks can be delegated to the same or different agents. Agents have financial constraints, and the government's contractual capacity

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"The horizontal governance of environmental upgrading: Lessons from the Prosecco and Valpolicella wine value chains in Italy"

Literature on environmental sustainability in global value chains (GVCs) focuses on how ‘lead firms’ can improve the environmental conditions of production among their various layers of suppliers. In this paper, Stefano Ponte (Copenaghen Business School) and our Valentina De Marchi, Marco Bettiol

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"Measuring Switching Costs in the Italian Residential Electricity Market"

This paper, published in 'The Energy Journal', investigates the existence and magnitude of consumers switching costs – namely, time-based and cognitive-based costs on consumers changing providers – in the Italian residential electricity market. Such costs may lead to consumer inertia in making

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Lavora con noi: Bando di selezione per 1 assegno di ricerca

Il Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali M. Fanno dell’Università di Padova bandisce un assegno di ricerca della durata di 24 mesi - settori scientifico disciplinari di interesse della ricerca SECS-P/05, SECS-P/03, SECS-P/02 - nell’ambito delle attività del progetto di ricerca, finanziato

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"Collusion sustainability with a capacity-constrained firm"

How does the stability of full and partial cartels depend on the capacity constraint of a small firm (or a fringe of small firms)? In their recent publication in "Oxford Economic Papers", Leonardo Madio, (Department of Economics and Management, University of Padua) and Aldo Pignataro (Italian

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