Marco Ferdinando Martorana

Guccio, C., Lisi, D., Martorana, M., & Pignataro, G. (2024). Is local competition effective in improving quality and efficiency of hospitals? Insights from an asymmetric spatial competition model. Research in Economics, 100962.

Cavalieri, M., Ferrara, P. L., Finocchiaro, C., & Martorana, M. F. (2024). An Economic Analysis of the Use of Local Natural Waste: Volcanic Ash of Mt. Etna Volcano (Italy) for Geopolymer Production. Sustainability, 16(2), 740.

Martorana M.F. & Rizzo I. (2024) The Economics of Libraries, Routledge, London. ISBN: 9781003331896.

Ioppolo I. & Martorana M.F. (2024) Il senso del luogo tra identità, senso di appartenenza e capitale sociale nel quartiere di San Berillo a Catania, In SESTO SENSO: Immagini di memorie, identità e luoghi tra letteratura e arti performative, a cura di Maria Rosa De Luca, Ilde Rizzo, Graziella Seminara. Mimesis, Milano, ISBN: 9791222308067

De Luca G., Lisi D., Martorana M., Siciliani L. (2023) Institutional quality and health outcomes, in  J. Costa-Font, A. Batinti, and G. Turati (Eds) Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems. Elgar, Cheltenham.

Cavalieri M, Ferrante L, Martorana M.F, Rizzo I. (2023) The ICT strategy of Italian museums: institutional, supply and demand side drivers, Economics of Innovation and New Technology GEIN, https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2023.2222268.

Cavalieri M, Lisi D, Martorana M.F, Rizzo I. (2023) Institutional quality and public sector performance: problems and perspectives, Economia Italiana, forthcoming

Martorana M.F., Mazza I., (2023) The effect of social interaction and cultural consumption on voting turnout, in M. Leroch and F. Rupp, (Eds) Power & Responsibility: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for the 21st Century in Honor of Manfred J. Holler. Springer, Cham. 

Longo M.C., Guccio C., Martorana M.F. (2023), Being Innovative Is Not Enough: A Semi-Parametric Assessment of the Efficiency of Post-Incubation Innovative Firms, European Journal of Innovation Management, forthcoming

Guccio C., Martorana M.F., Mazza I., Pignataro G., Rizzo I. (2022) “Is innovation in ICT valuable for the efficiency of Italian museums?” European Planning Studies 30(9), 1695-1716. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2020.1865277

De Luca G., Lisi D., Martorana M., Siciliani L. (2021). Does higher Institutional Quality improve the Appropriateness of Healthcare Provision? Journal of Public Economics, 194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104356

Guccio C., Martorana M.F., Mazza I., Rizzo I. (2021). Back to the Future. Does the use of information and communication technology enhance the performance of public historical archives?  Journal of Cultural Economics, 45(1), 13-43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-020-09385-1

Lavanga, M., Martorana M.F., Loots, E. Nieboer E., (2021) Designed for the job? An examination of the economic, work-related and socio-demographic determinants of the design profession. Cultural Trends 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2021.1951599

Guccio C., Martorana M.F., Mazza I., Pignataro G. Rizzo I. (2020). An analysis of the managerial performance of Italian museums using a generalised conditional efficiency model. Socio-Economic Planning Science. 72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2020.100891

Guccio C., Martorana M.F., Mazza I., Pignataro G. Rizzo I. (2020). An assessment of the performance of Italian PHAs. Journal of Policy Modeling 42(6), 1270-1286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2019.12.006

Guccio, C., Lisi, D., & Martorana, M. (2019). Efficiency of Italian Early Child Care Provision: A Bootstrapped DEA Assessment. In Advances in Local Public Economics (pp. 233-248). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3107-7_13

Martorana, M., Mazza, I., Mignosa, A., & Rizzo, I. (2019). The Economics of Heritage: Some Implications of Devolution. In Advances in Local Public Economics (pp. 249-260). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3107-7_14

Martorana, M. F. (2017). Comparing the Efficiency of Hospitals in Italy and Spain: A Non-parametric Approach, Politica economica, Journal of Economic Policy 3/2017, pp. 375-398, https://doi.org/10.1429/88462

Guccio, C., Martorana, M. F., & Mazza, I. (2017). The efficiency change of Italian public universities in the new millennium: a non-parametric analysis. Tertiary Education and Management 23(3), 222-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/13583883.2017.1329451

Guccio C, Lisi D, Martorana M, & Mignosa A. (2017) On the role of cultural participation in tourism destination performance: an assessment using robust conditional efficiency approach. Journal of Cultural Economics, 41, pp. 129–154 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-017-9295-z

Martorana, M. F., Mazza, I., & Monaco, L. (2017). Participation in the Arts and Social Inclusion in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods. In Enhancing Participation in the Arts in the EU (pp. 79-95). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09096-2_6

Cellini, R., Martorana, M. F., & Platania, F. (2017). The multi-product nature of the firm in the arts sector: A case study on ‘Centro Zo’. In Enhancing Participation in the Arts in the EU (pp. 221-233). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09096-2_15

Guccio, C., Martorana, M. F., & Monaco, L. (2016). Evaluating the impact of the Bologna Process on the efficiency convergence of Italian universities: a non-parametric frontier approach. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 45(3), 275-298. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11123-015-0459-6

Guccio C., Martorana M.F. & Mazza I. (2016) Efficiency assessment and convergence in teaching and research in Italian public universities, Scientometrics, 107(3) pp. 1063-1094, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-1903-8.

Guccio C., Martorana M.F., Mazza I. & Rizzo I. (2016) Technology and public access to cultural heritage: the Italian experience on IT for public historical archives, in Borowiecki, K.J., Forbes, N., and Fresa, A. (Eds.) Cultural Heritage in a Changing World, pp.55-75, Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29544-2_4