“…Kim and Kim (2005) or FitzPatrick, Davey, Muller, and Davey (2013)-we examine the effects of the variable intangible, obtained as the ratio of intangible assets to total assets. In recent years, there has been a significant growth in the market for intangibles and in their use in securitization contracts, a phenomenon that is also documented in some recent literature (Lindemann, 2010;Loumioti, 2012;Odasso, Scellato, & Ughetto, 2015;Taylor, Becerra, Stuart, & Case, 2009). While official statistics are not available for the Italian market, in a very recent paper, S. J. H. Graham, Marco, and Myers (2018) show how the securitization of trademarks has experienced a 14-fold increase between 1985 and 2012 in the United States, based on data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.…”