Italian Abstract: Il lavoro presenta alcune analisi su IDE e scambi internazionali di servizi basate sui microdati sottostanti alle statistiche di bilancia dei pagamenti. I microdati sono in grado di evidenziare e mitigare alcuni limiti informativi delle statistiche ufficiali, ormai non più...

The paper examines the fragmentation of production from the view-point of industrialised countries. From this perspective, the following questions are addressed: how do local systems evolve in the process of de-localisation of productions? Which are the short term and long term effects to be...

During the past decade all industrial countries attracted sizeable inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), excluding Italy and Japan: this fact has been interpreted as evidencing a deterioration in Italy�s structural competitiveness. This paper presents the results of a survey conducted...