Giovanni Mazzacani, 23, is young Italian who recently finished an internship at United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. He is studying a double degree on International Management at the Bocconi University, Milan, which included studying an academic year at the Fudan University in Shanghai. Giovanni has spent three months working in the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which is an organ of the United Nations; in particular they work in development countries with a particular focus in Africa.
He was invited to the Navarra C...
Pierre Mohnen presented an empirical paper a joint work with George van Leeuwen to test the Porter Hypothesis (PH) with data of firms in the Netherlands. “Simply putâ€, began Pierre, “the hypothesis by Porter says that regulations are good since they make firms competitive by forcing them to be innovative thereby making them productiveâ€.
Further studies divided the hypothesis to two, the “weak version†and the “strong versionâ€. With the former, the hypothesis is the effect of environmental regulations on environmental innovations. The latter refers to the effect of ...
Casilda Lasso de la Vega from the Universidad del Pais Vasco explains her research to the Navarra Center of International Development.
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