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Are firms exporting to China and India different from other exporters?

Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Bugamelli, Matteo; … - Banca d'Italia - 2012

This paper asks whether and why advanced countries differ in their ability to export to China and India. We exploit a newly collected, comparable cross-country survey of 15,000 European manufacturing firms (EFIGE). The dataset contains information on firmsï¿½ international activities and...

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Measuring the price elasticity of import demand in the destination markets of Italian export

Felettigh, Alberto; Federico, Stefano - Banca d'Italia - 2010

The aim of this paper is to compare the price elasticity of import demand in the destination markets of Italian exports … to the price elasticity in the destination markets of the other main euro-area countriesï¿½ exports. To this end, we use …-product combination) by Broda, Greenfield and Weinstein (2006). We find that Italy exports to markets which have, on average, a lower …

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Assessing the vulnerability of emerging Asia to external demand shocks: the role of China

Marconi, Daniela; Painelli, Laura - Banca d'Italia - 2009

exports on domestic demand for investment. In the last decade China has increased its dependence on external demand … be highly related to exports. Overcoming serious shortcomings in available data, we estimate an investment equation for … the period 1993-2006 and find an elasticity of investment to exports in the manufacturing sector in the range between 0 …

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The internationalization of the Italian productive system

Cristadoro, Riccardo; Federico, Stefano - Banca d'Italia - 2015

This work presents, in a single framework, the results of several recent studies, carried out by Bank of Italy researchers, on the internationalization of the Italian productive system. The notion of internationalization is considered not only from the perspective of direct investments abroad...

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New policy challenges from financial integration and deepening in the emerging areas of Asia and Central and Eastern Europe

Rolli, Valeria - Banca d'Italia - 2008

Since the mid-nineties international financial integration has advanced gradually in the emerging areas of Asia, while it has progressed rapidly in Central and Eastern Europe. This process has helped provide long-term benefits for the economies of the two regions in terms of faster productivity...

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What Caused the Asian Currency and Financial Crisis?.

Corsetti, G.; Pesenti, P.; Roubini, N. - Banca d'Italia - 1998

The paper examines the view that the Asian currency and financial crisis in 1997 and 1998 reflected structural and policy distortions in the countries of the region, even though market overreaction and herding caused the plunge of exchange rates, asset prices and economic activity to be more...

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Export prices, product quality and firms' characteristic: An analisys on a sample of Italian firms

Bugamelli, Matteo - Banca d'Italia - 2007

The unsatisfactory performance of Italian export volumes in the last decade has been attributed to three factors; the product specialization still centered around traditional sectors, the small firm size and the exceptional rise in export unit values. This paper analyzes the latter with the aim...

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The Italian Firms’ International Activity

Cristadoro, Riccardo; Leandro D’Aurizio - Banca d'Italia - 2015

We look at business survey data on Italian internationalized firms’ characteristics and performances since the outbreak of the 2008 crisis until 2012. Among Italian firms with 20 employees or more, an increasing share (from 7.1 to 13.2% between 2006 and 2011) owns a foreign productive unit....

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Trade openness and international fragmentation of production in the European Union: the new divide?

Guerrieri, Paolo; Caffarelli, Filippo Vergara - Banca d'Italia - 2012

This paper analyses the relationship between international fragmentation of production, trade openness and global 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...

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Comparative Advantages in Italy: A Long-Run Perspective

Federico, Giovanni; Wolf, Nikolaus - Banca d'Italia - 2011

The history of Italy since her unification in 1861 reflects the two-way relationship between foreign trade and economic development. Its growth was accompanied by a dramatic increase in the country's integration with European and global commodity markets: foreign trade in the long run grew on...

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