dataset, based on a new Bank of Italy survey, provides information on exports and imports of services (excluding … service. We report a set of stylized facts on trade in services. We also analyze the choice between export and foreign direct … findings are as follows: the export and import of services is highly concentrated in just a few firms; firm-level variation in …

In this paper we investigate whether new exporter firms have a higher probability of starting to export to the … positive relationship between a firm's probability of beginning to export to one market, and the presence in the same market of …

The paper investigates the dynamics of export relationships – defined as shipments by a given firm to a given … the relationships evolve over time, presenting a number of stylized facts that are related to various theories of export … dynamics, such as a dynamic sunk-cost model and the recent literature on exporting and learning. We find that export …

partners through experience, and export behaviour is state-dependent due to matching frictions. As predicted by our theoretical …

We propose an analysis for the largest euro-area countries (France, Germany, Italy and Spain), based on the framework …

This paper analyzes the role of bank credit in firms' export performance. We use Italian bank-firm matched data and … shocks. We find that short-run shocks to the supply of bank credit induce exporters to decrease their export flows, without …

productivities shape the response of the extensive (decision to export) and the intensive (exported volumes per firm) margins of … into the European Customs Union in 1996. A reduction in tariffs increases the probability to export and, surprisingly, the …. This occurs because, even if the productivity threshold to enter the export market falls in the same proportion as tariffs …

The paper assesses the extent to which mortgage rates in Italy are priced according to credit risk as proxied by the …