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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 …

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Industry dynamics and competition from low-wage countries: evidence on Italy

Federico, Stefano - Banca d'Italia - 2012

This paper analyses the effect of competition from low-wage countries on domestic activity, using data on 230 Italian manufacturing sectors between 1995 and 2007. We find that low-wage import penetration is negatively related to employment and other measures of activity. The effect is...

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Trade, technical progress and the environment: the role of a unilateral green tax on consumption

Marconi, Daniela - Banca d'Italia - 2010

The paper proposes a two-country general equilibrium model of endogenous growth and trade between two regions, North …

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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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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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Skill upgrading and exports

Accetturo, Antonio; Bugamelli, Matteo; Lamorgese, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2013

This paper analyzes the effects of international trade on the relative demand for skilled workers in Italian local …

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Foreign direct investment and trade: complements or substitutes?

Mori, Alessandra; Rolli, Valeria - Banca d'Italia - 1998

theoretical literature the relationship between direct investment and trade is not certain apriori: some works emphasize their … transfer production phases to low-wage countries, to circumvent trade barriers, to acquire natural or technological resources …

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Technology transfer and economic growth in developing countries: an econometric analysis

Crispolti, Valerio; Marconi, Daniela - Banca d'Italia - 2005

: trade and foreign direct investments. We study the extent to which, through these channels, research and development …

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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 … markets: foreign trade in the long run grew on average faster than the overall economy. Behind the dynamics of aggregate trade …, Italy's comparative advantage changed fundamentally over the last 150 years. The composition of trade, in terms of both …

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