markets and manufacturing workers. Our analysis shows that Italy’s local labour markets, which were more exposed to Chinese …

We analyze the foundations of the relationship between trade and total factor productivity (TFP) in the Ricardian model … "many" low-productivity industries exit the market. We derive a model-based measure of this effect that requires only …

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 …

dataset, based on a new Bank of Italy survey, provides information on exports and imports of services (excluding … trade is positively correlated with firm size and productivity; country-level variation is to a large extent explained by …

include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We …

only considering manufacturing. These findings shed a somewhat more positive light on future TFP developments in Italy …

We investigate the productivity effects of eco-innovations at the firm level using a modified version of the CDM model … intervention to create market opportunities, is likely to affect the way they are pursued and their effect on productivity. The … balance sheet information. When looking at innovation's return on productivity, we observe that eco-innovations exhibit a …

success from firm surveys along with the usual R&D expenditures and productivity measures. We then apply the model to data on … firm’s productivity, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive …