Ornella Tarola

TL;DR: In this paper, a non-experimental comparison group method, the regression discontinuity design, and a novel regional dataset for the 1994-2006 period was used to assess regional policy effects through a nonlinear regression model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider a vertically differentiated duopoly model in which a green producer competes with a brown rival in a market in which consumers are environmentally concerned, and they find that the interplay between the intensity of market competition, consumers' income disparity and environmental concern can play a crucial role in directing the green producer towards one or the other technological choice.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse how market competition in a vertically differentiated polluting industry is affected by product variants that comply at different levels with "green" social norms and focus on the role that institutions may have in using these norms to reduce pollution emissions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the following question: is it more profitable, for an entrant in a differentiated market, to acquire an existing firm than to compete, and illustrate the answer by considering competition in the banking sector.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how uncertainty can affect successive markets, when uncertainty can jointly influence both the upstream and downstream markets' conditions, and they show that the equilibrium input and output quantities under stochastic dependence can be higher or lower than the corresponding quantities in the case of certainty equivalence depending on how much dependent are the events.