export performance in the European Union from 2000 to 2009. As most trade models featuring international production sharing … show, the higher the level of fragmentation and related international openness the better the export performance of a … EU Member States and find that inter-European fragmentation and openness significantly improve their long-run export …

The aim of this paper is to compare the price elasticity of import demand in the destination markets of Italian exports … motor vehicle and other transport equipment sectors. Net of these two industries, the export elasticities of the four …

large share of activity in the manufacturing sector is export oriented, we expect fixed capital investment in this sector to …

, whereas it diminishes for countries that have large domestic markets and import technology through foreign capital goods. …

of the Uruguay Round did not lead more firms to export and instead, only encouraged incumbent exporters to increase their …

analysis is based on a large set of indicators of international outsourcing including a new one, the direct and indirect import … content of production, which also takes into account the import content of domestic inputs. In 2006 the intensity of …

increased import competition from China has affected firms� pricing strategies causing a reduction in the dynamics of prices … and markups. After controlling for other price determinants (demand and cost, domestic competition and import penetration … export market share proves the causal nature of the relationship we find. Inspired by and in line with recent advances in the …