Ganau, Roberto

Number of items: 26.
Geography and Environment
  • Cainelli, Giulio, Ciccarelli, Carlo, Ganau, Roberto (2025). Napoleonic administrative reforms and development in the Italian Mezzogiorno. The Journal of Economic History, 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050725100946 picture_as_pdf
  • Crescenzi, Riccardo, Ganau, Roberto (2025). When the rain comes, don’t stay at home! Regional innovation and FDI in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Regional Studies, 59(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2025.2503967 picture_as_pdf
  • Crescenzi, Riccardo, Ganau, Roberto (2025). Inward FDI and regional performance in Europe after the Great Recession. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 18(1), 167 - 192. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsae038 picture_as_pdf
  • Bettiol, Marco, Capestro, Mauro, Di Maria, Eleonora, Ganau, Roberto (2024). Is this time different?: how Industry 4.0 affects firms' labor productivity. Small Business Economics, 62(4), 1449-1467. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-023-00825-8 picture_as_pdf
  • Ganau, Roberto, Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (2023). Firm-level productivity growth returns of social capital: evidence from Western Europe. Journal of Regional Science, 63(3), 529 - 551. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12636 picture_as_pdf
  • Ganau, Roberto, Kilroy, Austin (2023). Detecting economic growth pathways in the EU’s lagging regions. Regional Studies, 57(1), 41 - 56. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2050200 picture_as_pdf
  • Crescenzi, Riccardo, Ganau, Roberto, Storper, Michael (2023). Governments and companies must address climate and governance risks when petroleum assets change hands. Columbia FDI Perspectives: perspectives on topical foreign direct investment issues, 350, picture_as_pdf
  • Crescenzi, Riccardo, Ganau, Roberto (2022). When the rain comes, don’t stay at home! Regional innovation and trans-local investment in the aftermath of the Great Recession. (Economic Geography and Spatial Economics Series 36). Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Ganau, Roberto, Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (2022). Credit constraints in European SMEs does regional institutional quality matter? Applied Economics Letters, 29(15), 1388-1392. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1934385 picture_as_pdf
  • Cainelli, Giulio, Ganau, Roberto, Giunta, Anna (2022). Business groups, institutions, and firm performance. Industrial and Corporate Change, 31(1), 215 - 233. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtab046 picture_as_pdf
  • Crescenzi, Riccardo, Ganau, Roberto, Storper, Michael (2022). Does foreign investment hurt job creation at home? The geography of outward FDI and employment in the USA. Journal of Economic Geography, 22(1), 53 - 79. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbab016 description
  • Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés, Ganau, Roberto (2022). Institutions and the productivity challenge for European regions. Journal of Economic Geography, 22(1), 1 - 25. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbab003 picture_as_pdf
  • Ganau, Roberto, Grandinetti, Roberto (2021). Disentangling regional innovation capability what really matters? Industry and Innovation, 28(6), 749 - 772. https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2021.1904841 picture_as_pdf
  • Crescenzi, Riccardo, Ganau, Roberto, Storper, Michael (29 May 2021) Creating jobs at home by investing overseas – a counterintuitive truth. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Crescenzi, Riccardo, Ganau, Roberto, Storper, Michael (24 May 2021) Creating jobs at home by investing overseas – a counterintuitive truth. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Cainelli, Giulio, Ganau, Roberto (2021). Knowledge spillovers, related variety and firm heterogeneity. Scienze Regionali, 20(2), 167 - 180. https://doi.org/10.14650/100113 picture_as_pdf
  • Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés, Ganau, Roberto, Maslauskaite, Kristina, Brezzi, Monica (2020). Credit constraints, labor productivity and the role of regional institutions: evidence from manufacturing firms in Europe. Journal of Regional Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12514 picture_as_pdf
  • Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés, Ganau, Roberto, Maslauskaite, Kristina, Brezzi, Monica (2020). Credit constraints, labor productivity and the role of regional institutions: evidence for manufacturing firms in Europe. (Geography and Environment Discussion Paper Series 17). Department of Geography and Environment, LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Cainelli, Giulio, Ganau, Roberto, Jiang, Yuting (2020). Detecting space–time agglomeration processes over the Great Recession using firm-level micro-geographic data. Journal of Geographical Systems, 22(4), 419 - 445. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10109-020-00332-4 picture_as_pdf
  • Ganau, Roberto, Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (2019). Do high-quality local institutions shape labour productivity in Western European manufacturing firms? Papers in Regional Science, 98(4), 1633-1666. https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12435 description
  • Cainelli, Giulio, Ganau, Roberto, Modica, Marco (2019). Does related variety affect regional resilience? New evidence from Italy. Annals of Regional Science, 62(3), 657-680. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-019-00911-4
  • Cainelli, Giulio, Ganau, Roberto, Modica, Marco (2019). Industrial relatedness and regional resilience in the European Union. Papers in Regional Science, 98(2), 755-778. https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12377
  • Cainelli, Giulio, Ganau, Roberto (2019). Related variety and firm heterogeneity what really matters for short-run firm growth? Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 31(9-10), 768-784. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2019.1571636
  • Cainelli, Giulio, Ganau, Roberto, Giunta, Anna (2018). Spatial agglomeration, global value chains, and productivity: micro-evidence from Italy and Spain. Economics Letters, 169, 43-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.04.020
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  • Ganau, Roberto, Cainelli, Giulio, Ciccarelli, Carlo (2025). Napoleonic Administrative Reforms and Development in the Italian Mezzogiorno. [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e224261
  • Ganau, Roberto, Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (2017). Industrial clusters, organized crime and productivity growth in Italian SMEs. Journal of Regional Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12354