theoretical literature the relationship between direct investment and trade is not certain apriori: some works emphasize their … transfer production phases to low-wage countries, to circumvent trade barriers, to acquire natural or technological resources …

and reduce the gains from trade, and on the consequent second best policy problems. The elimination of environmental … in clean technologies, is introduced. The latter appears to be essential in order to loose the trade off between growth … and environmental protection. The paper stresses the need for the international co-ordination of both trade and …

emerging countries succeeds in fully exploiting the competitive advantages of their low labour costs. Their trade penetration … Trade Union movements and favours income redistribution from wages to profits. The governments of some advanced countries … maintain a big trade deficit to expand the supply of international currency. Therefore they adopt expansionary fiscal and …

Italian trade and direct investment in the region. The main stylized facts are the following: (1) among the countries of the …

trade defense measure instruments …

English Abstract: According to international trade statistics, the pharmaceutical sector, in which Italy has a … Italy, is defined as “processing” and is included in goods exports sourced from international trade statistics but not in …

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 …