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Monday, 18 May 2020

Landmarks as lighthouses: firms’ innovation and exit routes during the crisis

Listen to Professor Elena Cefis who will discuss her paper. This investigates the relationship between innovation and survival of firms and Professor Elena Cefis investigates the effects of time-varying innovative behaviours of firms on both the instantaneous hazard and the total (cumulative) probability to exit the market.

Event Time
18 May 15:15 - 18 May 16:30
Event Location
9.041, Alliance Manchester Business School, Booth Street West, Manchester, M15 6PB
Event Type

Paper co-authored by Elena Cefis, Alex Coad and Alessandro Lucini-Paioni.

Elena Cefis is Full Professor at the Department of Management, Economics, and Quantitative Methods, University of Bergamo, Italy, and an external research fellow at L.E.M. - Laboratory of Economics and Management, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa. She is an Associate Editor of Industrial and Corporate Change, and her main areas of research are Innovation and Industrial Dynamics.

She has published in Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, Regional Studies, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, and Industrial and Corporate Change. She previously taught at Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht; Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona; and at Bocconi University, Milan. She obtained her PhD degree in History and her PhD degree in Economics at European University Institute, Florence.

Refreshments are available prior to the seminar at 15:15.