The aim of this paper is to compare the price elasticity of import demand in the destination markets of Italian exports … to the price elasticity in the destination markets of the other main euro-area countries� exports. To this end, we use …-product combination) by Broda, Greenfield and Weinstein (2006). We find that Italy exports to markets which have, on average, a lower …

I examine the effect of reducing export tariffs on the productivity of domestic suppliers of exporting firms. Using a …) increases the productivity of intermediate input suppliers by 1.5 percent. The increase in productivity among domestic suppliers … accounts for 22.5 percent of aggregate productivity gains. I find that tariff cuts induce firms to acquire new machinery and …

volatile, others are persistent. Previous exports to a destination substantially increase a firm�s probability of making … current exports there. Taken together, these facts correspond better to the learning than to the sunk-cost hypothesis. …

problems. This increases state dependence by more in those sectors. Finally, hazard rates depend on the quality of local legal …

in domestic sales by Italian firms in 2012, contributed negatively to firms' exports, and together with liquidity … constraints, the fall reduced the growth rate of exports by an average of 0.6 percentage points. …

mode of organization (outsourcing versus integration) of intermediate inputs production. We find evidence of a productivity … productive and domestic outsourcing by the least productive firms; those with medium-high productivity choose domestic … integration, those with medium-low productivity foreign outsourcing. We also find that the preference for integration over …

exports on domestic demand for investment. In the last decade China has increased its dependence on external demand … be highly related to exports. Overcoming serious shortcomings in available data, we estimate an investment equation for … the period 1993-2006 and find an elasticity of investment to exports in the manufacturing sector in the range between 0 …