Research
Research interests
Firms and industry dynamics; Economics of innovation and technological change; Digital economy; GVCs and international trade.
Publications
Marco Sforza, 2023. "Are digital technologies reshaping trade patterns? Evidence from European industries", Dipartimento di Economia Working Papers n. 275, Roma Tre University.
Work in progress
Digital technologies and managerial capabilities. An empirical investigation on Italian family firms, with Roberto Gabriele and Anna Giunta
Digital technologies' impacts on firms' financing conditions, with Raffaello Bronzini, Anna Giunta, and Eleonora Pierucci
Digital technologies and GVC regionalisation in Europe, with Anna Giunta and Enrico Marvasi
Agricultural impact on climate change: a review of approaches to modelling emissions, with Luca Salvatici, Cristina Vaquero, Marco Amendola
PhD thesis
Exploring Firms' Digital Transformation. An empirical assessment of its determinants and impacts.
Main supervisor: Anna Giunta
The aim of the research project is to understand the drivers and impacts of firms' digital transformation.
Using both a firm-level and an industry-level perspective, the thesis assesses the constraints and the impacts of adopting digital technologies - namely, Industry 4.0 technologies - and the implications for firms' performance, organisational structure, financing dynamics, and the industry-level impacts on international trade.
Master thesis
Structural change, technological innovation and employment: evidence from the Italian case
Supervisor: Annamaria Simonazzi