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Adaptive Forecasting in the Presence of Recent and Ongoing Structural Change (2012)
Liudas Giraitis, George Kapetanios, Simon Price
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Alfonsina Iona

Alfonsina Iona
Lecturer

Room number: W320
Tel: +44 20 7882 8422
Fax: +44 20 8983 3580
Email: a.iona@qmul.ac.uk
Office hours: Monday 12:00-14:00 or by appointment (please email)

Research keywords: Capital Structure, Corporate Investment, Corporate Governance and Financing constraints.

Her research in Finance is carried out both at the theoretical and empirical level. In particular, she studies and develops models of investment where the effects of capital market imperfections contribute to shape the firm’s investment; where corporate investment is affected by the public investment and where capital market imperfections effects may be relaxed by some macroeconomic variables. In this research area she also analyzes how corporate governance characteristics affect the firm financing policies and how these affect the firm value.

Her research in Economics is instead focused on the main determinants of the adoption of innovations by firms and the impact of innovations on firm performance.



Selected publications

Articles in Refereed Academic Journals

  • "O convergence where art thou? Regional growth and industrialization in Italy", Journal of Modern Italian Studies 13 (3) pp 366-387, 2008 (with L.  Leonida and Sobbrio, G.).
  • "The UK productivity gap. Do management practices matter?", International Journal of Productivity & Performance Management 58 (8), 727-747. 2009 (with G. Battisti)
  • "The intra-firm diffusion of complementary innovations: evidence from the adoption of management practices by British establishments"  Research Policy 38, 1326-1339 (with G. Battisti), 2009.
  • Regional Infrastructure and Firm Investment. Theory and Empirical Evidence for Italy, Empirical Economics 40, 25-50, 2011 (with F. Aiello and L. Leonida).

Chapters in  Books

  • Infrastrutture regionali ed investimenti di impresa: Teoria ed evidenza empirica in Italia, in "Competitivita ed Efficienza Dell'Economia Italiana: Fattori Sistemici e Valutazioni Quantitative" (edited by G. Cella and A. Zago), Il Mulino, Bologna, July 2008 (with F. Aiello and L. Leonida), ISBN: 978-88-15-00000-0s.
  • Industrialization, convergence and governance: the case of Italy, "Italy Today. The sick man of Europe" (edited by Andrea Mammone, Giuseppe A. Veltri) Routledge, ISBN: 978-0-415-56160-0. Publication Date: 1st December 2009 (with L. Leonida and G. Sobbrio).