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Essays on Entrepreneurial Financing

Venture capital has emerged as an integral component within the entrepreneurial ecosystem. This dissertation seeks to understand how venture capital has influenced entrepreneurial activities in three different contexts concerning various sources of risk capital. The first study investigates how startups adjust their technological positioning after securing corporate venture capital, delineating a nuanced framework based on an interplay of learning synergies and competitive threats. The theory...

Essays on Gender Inequalities

Women’s empowerment has been arguably a fundamental social change during the last century. The progress towards gender equality, the convergence in some of the life outcomes of women and men, and the changes in gender roles call for new approaches to research on gender. In this dissertation, I combine approaches from demography, social policy, sociology, and political science to propose new perspectives on various aspects of gender inequalities. I start with the most basic difference and ask ...

Industrial Property Rights in Circular Economy: Challenges and Opportunities

Starting from the latest steps of the European legislator on the circular economy, this work moves in two directions. The first is to examine the challenges presented by intellectual property rights in the spare parts sector, specifically addressing issues related to trademarks and patents. The study then turns to the repair sector, assessing the constraints faced by the exhaustion doctrine when applied to IP-protected products undergoing repair. The analysis aims to propose solutions by reev...

Essays on the Political Economy of Development

This thesis consists of three chapters on the political economy of development. The regional focus is on China, but the issues studied are widespread around the world. In Chapter 1, I study the manipulation of economic statistics by government officials. Leveraging a unique reform in China, I show that a combination of top-down monitoring and punishment could effectively reduce such manipulation; furthermore, reducing such manipulation could elicit officials’ effort in developing the economy,...

Essays on Environmental and Health Economics

This thesis unravels some aspects the complex relationship between anthropogenic activities inducing environmental externalities and human health under an economic perspective. The first chapter analyses the causal impact of manure spreading on fine particulate matter concentrations, as well as respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalisations, mortality rate at discharge, and treatment costs using air quality and hospital discharge data from the Lombardy region in Italy. Exogenous variation i...

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