più lungo periodo sia nelle produzioni tipiche del Made in Italy (tessile e calzature), sia in quelle caratterizzate da … productivity gains and the loss of international competitiveness to the difficulties of our industries to adapt to changes in the …

of Italy (Felettigh et al., 2015), which is based on the producer prices of domestically-sold manufactures, and we refine … since 1999, Italy and Spain have performed better in the non-euro area than in the euro-area markets. Competitiveness in the … in Italy and in Germany …

We provide an in-depth analysis of Italy's export performance relative to the other main euro-area countries over the …

This paper documents the recent innovations to the Bank of Italy methodology underlying the estimation of price … non-negligibly. In the first half of 2019, no significant price competitiveness misalignment is recorded for Italy and for …

This paper provides new Bank of Italy indicators of price competitiveness for 62 countries. We refreshed the approach … measures. However, the competitiveness gap in 2014 vis-à-vis Germany remained unchanged in Italy and Spain, while it increased …-area countries than with respect to the others; no significant difference was recorded in Italy …

the population has long been far lower in Italy (12 percent in 2007) that in the rest of Europe (24 percent). The 32 … share of university graduates at local level is positively associated with restructuring activities and with productivity … in productivity that has characterized the Italian economy since the mid-nineties …

This paper investigates the contribution of allocative efficiency to aggregate labor productivity growth in Italy … efficiency accounted for 35 per cent of aggregate productivity in 2005 and its weight increased by almost 7 percentage points … during the period of observation. We show that the dynamics of aggregate labor productivity benefited from the reallocation …

We analyse the geographic localization and the productivity of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in Italy … where they attain significantly higher labour productivity levels. Urban productivity advantages are found to be strongly … relevant. On the whole, the set of explanatory factors considered could explain the entire urban productivity premium estimated …

competition in the sector)?; iii) which are the main determinants of LPEs' performance in terms of productivity? The main findings …