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 … the last decade (1996-2005), export unit values have overestimated export price dynamics by 2 percentage points on average …

standardization, necessary to allow a full information exchange among the different processes. The introduction of ICT is less costly …

. Altogether, these results suggest that the break in the Italian aggregate export supply function caused by the depreciation of … barrier to export, especially for the myriad of Italian small and medium firms. Finally, we provide some new evidence that …

This paper asks whether and why advanced countries differ in their ability to export to China and India. We exploit a … literature, we prove that larger, more productive and innovative firms are more likely to become exporters and to export more … ownership, a higher percentage of family management reduces a firm�s export propensity and export volumes. Regarding China and …

instrument, but its potential is hindered by the indeterminacy of its contents: some standardization would be beneficial. The …

of the theory of product differentiation. In the general case of price-making behaviour on the part of firms, hedonic … matched model indexes. The theory is applied to the study of personal computer prices in Italy during the 1995-2000 period. …