Using firm level data on Italian manufacturing industry, we examine how trade activities are related to workforce … consistent with multi-attribute models on firm heterogeneity and trade. In fact we show that even after controlling for various … workers than non exporters. Second, we consider the engagement of firms in international transactions, either by means of …

, where the latter is estimated alternatively as labor productivity and as exports. FDI notably increases both labor … of FDI in certain regional industries are associated with higher performance indicators of firms' not receiving FDI in … those same regional industries. …

like competition and linkage effects through industrial and regional spillovers respectively. We use a simple Cournot … competition model in order to test for industrial and regional spillovers. The estimation results suggest that large firms …

dissimilarity measures instead of rank correlations, we observe a great deal of variability among the product-mixes a firm exports …

The paper examines the causal effect of financial constraints on firm exports. We exploit a firm-level proxy of … strategy allows to cure for self-selection into exports and endogeneity of financial constraints. At the same time, we can … exports of within firm changes in financial constraints status. We find that financial constraints produce a sizable reduction …