Research
Current Research Projects
EU Commission 7th Framework Programme
INNODRIVE: Intangible Capital and Innovations: Drivers of Growth and Location in the EU
Project developed under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union, SSH-2007-1.1.2 Intangible investments and innovation in Europe. The aim of this research project is to reduce our ignorance by providing new data on intangibles and new estimates of the capacity of intangible capital to generate growth. We envisage doing this both at firm-level and at national level. At the micro-level the present project will improve our insight into the contributions of intangibles to the growth of firms by exploiting the potential of recently established linked employer-employee datasets and implementing a performance-based methodology to analyse how firms use knowledge and human capital to increase their productivity and how mobile workers react to these processes. At the national-economy level we will expand the traditional growth accounting framework by including, in capital formation, estimates of the investment in intangibles which, hitherto, have been counted as current expenditure in the conventional national accounts. This research will thus explore hitherto uncharted territories in EU socio-economic research. This research project will deliver new foundations for the formulation of policies to strengthen growth and employment in the EU by providing new “beyond-the-state-of-the-art” estimates of intangibles’ contribution to economic performance. The research network includes 9 EU Institutes, and the LUISS Lab team comprehends Stefano Manzocchi, Cecilia Jona Lasinio, Massimiliano Iommi and Giovanna Vallanti.
ICT-Net - Commission Evaluation
Sprintoff - Commission Evaluation
FDI Competitiveness and its Relation with Political Variables
Project directed by Daniel Gros (CEPS) and Stefano Manzocchi (LLEE) under the ongoing partnership between the two institutions. It includes Ms. Selen Sarisoy Guerin (LUISS Fellow at CEPS for 2005-2006).
European Network for Better Regulation
Project developed under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union, Priority 7"Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-based Society", itis aimed at setting up and operating a pan-European network for improving and disseminating the current knowledge of regulatory processes as well as the degree and mode of implementation of impact assessment procedures in EU member states. It includes 18 Research Centersand National Institutions of EU-25, and is coordinated by Andrea Renda at CEPS. The Italian Unitis based at the Luiss Lab and is supervised by Stefano Manzocchi (Director, LLEE).
Firms' internationalization and relationships with banks
Project developed with Unicredit Banca –Osservatorio Piccole Imprese, it is directed by Stefano Manzocchi and Zeno Rotondi (Head of Research, Unicredit Banca).
Past Research Projects
The World macroeconomic framework: an econometric model of the US, European and Asian economies
Project developed in cooperation with Unicredit Banca Mobiliare (UBM) - Research & Strategy. The project is coordinated by Stefano Manzocchi for LLEE, and by Marco Annunziata and Aurelio Maccario for UBM.
Information and Communication Technologies in Europe: diffusion and economic effects for SMEs
Project developed in cooperation with Telecom Italia and Luiss School of Management. The project is coordinated by Stefano Manzocchi for LLEE.
