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Foreign direct investment and institutional quality

Borin, Alessandro; Cristadoro, Riccardo; Mattevi, Elena - Banca d'Italia - 2014

procedures, rather than their costs, are key determinants in foreign investorsï¿½ choices. Italy, which receives less FDI than …

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Foreign direct investment and multinational firms

Borin, Alessandro; Cristadoro, Riccardo - Banca d'Italia - 2014

processes on a global scale, the average growth rate of foreign direct investment (FDI) has exceeded that of GDP and trade, and … its geographical and sectoral distribution has changed. In 2012, for the first time FDI flows to developing countries … outpaced those to developed countries. Italy lags behind as a destination for FDI inflows and also as an originator of FDI …

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

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

In this paper we investigate two potential channels of international technology transfer towards developing countries: trade and foreign direct investments. We study the extent to which, through these channels, research and development expenditures (R&D) performed by advanced countries affect...

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European acquisitions in the United States: re-examining Olivetti-Underwood fifty years later

Amidei, Federico Barbiellini; Goldstein, Andrea; … - Banca d'Italia - 2010

While Italy's catch-up in the course of the 20th century has been nothing short of extraordinary, it has failed to produce a large number of global business players. Nonetheless, half a century ago an Italian company concluded what was at the time the largest-ever foreign takeover of a US...

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The clean development mechanism and technology transfer to China

Marconi, Daniela; Sanna-Randaccio, Francesca - Banca d'Italia - 2012

In this study we analyse the role of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) established by the Kyoto Protocol in channelling foreign technology to China. The descriptive analysis investigates the sources and the determinants of foreign technology transfer based on the examination of 1,355...

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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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Geography of internationalization statistics

Bentivogli, Chiara; Oddo, Giacomo; Pellegrini, Valeria - Banca d'Italia - 2014

The paper presents an overview of available statistics on the internationalization of the Italian economy. The different sources are compared in terms of completeness, consistency and compatibility, timeliness, relevance and frequency of revisions, presence of systematic biases and significant...

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Do firm-bank relationships affect firms' internationalization?

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

. We obtain two main results. First, a longer relationship with the main bank fosters firms' foreign direct investment (FDI …) while it does not affect the export status of the enterprises not engaging in FDI. Second, the probability of a firm … undertaking FDI further increases if its main bank is itself internationalized by holding foreign subsidiaries. …

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The Determinants of Cross-Border Bank Shareholdings; an Analysis with Bank-Level Data from OECD Countries

Focarelli, Dario; Pozzolo, Alberto Franco - Banca d'Italia - 2000

TThis 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 of nearly 2,500 OECD...

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Investire in Italia? Risultati di una recente indagine empirica

Committeri, Marco - Banca d'Italia - 2004

During the past decade all industrial countries attracted sizeable inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI … offices, aimed at identifying the main factors that influenced the countryï¿½s attractiveness of FDI in the most recent years …. The first section contains a brief survey of the literature on factors of attraction and obstacles to FDI. Italyï …

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