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Giampaolo Garzarelli


Giampaolo Garzarelli

Qualification: PhD ("La Sapienza", Rome), MA (University of Connecticut), Laurea (LUISS-Guido Carli, Rome), BA (American University, Washington, DC)

Main academic discipline: Economics

Research Interests: Theory of the Firm, Public Economics, Institutions, Technological Change

Other: Some working papers available @ http://ideas.repec.org/e/pga71.html

WITS telephone number: +27 11 71 78128

Email: Giampaolo.Garzarelli@wits.ac.za

Office number: NCB135

Details last updated on the 29th 2009f April 2009

Research: Giampaolo Garzarelli

Academic Journal Articles

Langlois, R.N., Garzarelli, G. (2008). 'Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-source Collaboration' Industry and Innovation, 15 (2): 125-143.
Garzarelli, G., Thomassen, B., Limam, Y.R. (2008). 'Open source software and economic growth: A classical division of labor perspective' Information Technology for Development, 14 (2): 116-135.
Garzarelli, G. (2008). 'The Division of Labor and Voluntary Production' Economía, 33 (25): 47-60.
Garzarelli, G. (2008). 'The organizational approach of capability theory' Review of Political Economy, 20 (3): 443-453.
Foss, N.J., Garzarelli, G. (2007). 'Institutions as knowledge capital: Ludwig M. Lachmann's interpretative institutionalism' Cambridge Journal of Economics, 31 (5): 789-804.
Garzarelli, G., Thomassen, B. (2006). 'Is state building the road to world order?' Prometheus, 24 (2): 213-222.
Garzarelli, G. (2006). 'Cognition, incentives, and public governance: Laboratory federalism from the organizational viewpoint' Public Finance Review, 34 (3): 325-357.
Garzarelli, G. (2004). 'Old and new theories of fiscal federalism, organizational design problems, and Tiebout' Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 22 (1-2): 91-104.

Contributions to other works

Garzarelli, G. (2004). 'Open Source Software and the Economics of Organization' in Birner, J., Garrouste, P. Markets, Information and Communication. Routledge: London and New York.
Garzarelli, G., Limam, Y.R. (2003). 'Knowledge, Coordination, and Fiscal Federalism: An Organizational Perspective' in Zanardi, A., Franco, D. Il futuro dei sistemi nazionali tra integrazione europea e decentramento regionale. FrancoAngeli: Milan.

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