the Bank of Italy�s survey of manufacturers, measures a crucial aspect of the transformation, namely quality upgrading …, from 2000 to 2006. The gauge of upgrading, not used in earlier literature, is the portion of price changes representing the …). We find evidence of upgrading capable of explaining a quarter of the firms� average annual price increases (about 0 …

upgrading and non-upgrading (marginal) intermediate firms in terms of size, efficiency, human capital endowment and … collapse in world trade, firms that were upgrading by expanding their international linkages were more severely hit than those …