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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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Exporters and importers of services: firm-level evidence on Italy

Federico, Stefano; Tosti, Enrico - Banca d'Italia - 2012

service. We report a set of stylized facts on trade in services. We also analyze the choice between export and foreign direct … findings are as follows: the export and import of services is highly concentrated in just a few firms; firm-level variation in … less productive firms choose to export rather than sell through foreign affiliates. …

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Inward foreign direct investment and innovation: evidence from Italian provinces

Antonietti, Roberto; Bronzini, Raffaello; Cainelli, Giulio - Banca d'Italia - 2015

This paper investigates empirically whether inward greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) is related to greater sectorial innovation in the host Italian provinces. We combine several sources of data to estimate panel count models, regressing the annual number of patents in each province and...

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Do firm-bank relationships affect firms' internationalization?

Bonis, Riccardo De; Ferri, Giovanni; Rotondi, Zeno - Banca d'Italia - 2014

) while it does not affect the export status of the enterprises not engaging in FDI. Second, the probability of a firm …

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Domestic and foreign sales: complements or substitutes?

Bugamelli, Matteo; Gaiotti, Eugenio; Viviano, Eliana - Banca d'Italia - 2014

How are the dynamics of foreign and domestic sales correlated at the firm level? The question is relevant in that the sign of the correlation shapes the international transmission of shocks and the effects of policy measures. From a theoretical perspective, the correlation could be either zero,...

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Innovation and Foreign Technology in Italy,1861-2011

Amidei, Federico Barbiellini; Cantwell, John; … - Banca d'Italia - 2011

The paper explores the long run evolution of Italy's performance in technological innovation as a function of international technology transfer, reconstructing the different phases and dimensions of Italian innovative activity, tracking the transfer of foreign technological knowledge through a...

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Innovation and Foreign Technology in Italy,1861-2011

Amidei, Federico Barbiellini; Cantwell, John; … - Banca d'Italia - 2011

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Old and new Italian multinational firms

Berta, Giuseppe; Onida, Fabrizio - Banca d'Italia - 2011

After a quick profile of Italian foreign direct investments since 1900 and a short review of the main explanations of the lagged multinational growth by Italian manufacturing companies, a quick glimpse of business histories is given to the only two still today living "old protagonists" (Pirelli,...

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The Determinants of Cross-Border Bank Share holdings: an Analysis with Bank-Level Data from OECD Countries.

Focarelli, D.; Pozzolo, A.F. - Banca d'Italia - 2000

This paper investigates which factors determine a bank's decision to expand its activities abroad and what determines its choice of the countries to invest in. The empirical analysis is conducted using firm-level data on foreign subsidiaries for a representative sample fo nearly 2,500 OECD banks.

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Outsourcing versus Integration at Home or Abroad

Federico, Stefano - Banca d'Italia - 2010

Using data on a sample of Italian manufacturing companies, this paper analyzes the location (at home or abroad) and the mode of organization (outsourcing versus integration) of intermediate inputs production. We find evidence of a productivity ordering (largely consistent with the assumptions in...

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