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RESEARCH PRODUCT
A Spatial Multilevel Analysis of Italian SMEs Productivity
Davide PiacentinoGiorgio Faziosubject
Firm heterogeneity Spatial variability Socio-economic Context Multilevel AnalysisOperations researchWelfare economicsjel:C31Geography Planning and DevelopmentMultilevel modelContext (language use)socio-economic contextFirm heterogeneityGeographyCapital (economics)jel:R30Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)Capital intensitySpatial variabilityspatial variabilitymultilevel analysisjel:R12Statistics Probability and Uncertaintyjel:R11General Economics Econometrics and FinanceProductivitydescription
Abstract In this paper, we adapt multilevel analysis methods to investigate the spatial variability of SMEs' productivity across the Italian territory, and account for differences in the socio-economic context. Our results suggest that to properly capture the variability of the data, it is important to allow for both spatial mean and slope effects. Social decay has the expected negative impact. However, while this effect is larger on firms with smaller capital intensity, firms with higher capital intensity seem to be less affected by geography. Greater territorial heterogeneity emerges among those firms with lower capital to labour ratios. Une analyse spatiale a plusieurs niveaux de la productivite de PME italiennes Resume dans la presente communication, nous adaptons des methodes d'analyse a plusieurs niveaux pour examiner la variabilite spatiale de la productivite de PME sur l'integralite du territoire italien, et evaluer les differences sur un plan socio-economique. Nos resultats indiquent que pour sai...
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2009-06-01 |