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Italy�s sluggish export performance with respect to world trade in the second half of the 1990s. In particular, the … analysis focuses on the role of product specialisation in relation to world trade growth and competition from emerging … export growth because world demand for traditional and specialised suppliers products expanded at a slower pace in the 1990s …
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This paper compares main European countries and the euro area specialization patterns. The analysis, that covers the period 1988-1997 and is based on a detailed sectoral breakdown, provides evidence to assess the degree of structural differences and convergence among European countries, which...
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Do tariffs inhibit trade flows by limiting the entry of exporting firms (`extensive margin') or by restricting the average volume exported by each firm (`intensive margin')? Using a gravity equation approach, we analyze how the decrease in tariffs promoted during the 1990s by the Uruguay Round...
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The paper investigates the dynamics of export relationships � defined as shipments by a given firm to a given destination in a given year � in a panel of almost 25,000 French exporters over the five-year period 1995-1999. It describes how the relationships evolve over time, presenting...
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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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structure of world demand. Only Veneto shifted its specialisation from low-tech to high-tech, while the other regions became … with stronger world export growth, though they show some advantages in industries whose world demand rose at intermediate … speed. Over the decade the specialisation in the world fastest growing sectors grew for Veneto, was unchanged for Marche …
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The book brings together a series of research papers presented at a workshop on "The trends of Italy's international tourism", held at the Bank of Italy in Rome on 22 June 2012, on occasion of the release, on Bank of Italy's website, of microdata from the Survey on international tourism in...
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