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The Asymmetries of a Small World: Entry Into and Withdrawal From International Markets by French Firms
Engel, Dirk; Procher, Vivien; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2010
This paper studies the internationalization behaviour of French companies, using more than 330.000 observations for three two-year intervals. We analyze the role of productivity, organisational and ownership structure, and of financial characteristics for the decision to enter into and exit from...
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Home Firm Performance after Foreign Investments and Divestitures
Engel, Dirk; Procher, Vivien - 2010
Being international' has nearly become an undisputed aim for firms in a globalized world. Several papers find a positive relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the home performance of firms. In this paper we address the 'FDI - export' relationship to better understand this...
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The effects of privatization and consolidation on bank productivity: comparative evidence from Italy and Germany
Fiorentino, Elisabetta; Vincenzo, Alessio De; Heid, Frank; … - 2009
directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state …
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Dynamic and distributional effects of environmental revenue recycling schemes: Simulations with a general equilibrium model of the Italian economy
Roson, Roberto - 2002
A dynamic general equilibrium model of the Italian economy is used to assess the impact of carbon taxation (or auctioned carbon permits), where additional revenue is used to cut either existing taxes on labour or on capital income. Simulation results do not support the existence of the so-called...
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Labor taxes, wage setting and the relative wage effect
Brunello, Giorgio; Parisi, Maria Luisa; Sonedda, Daniela - 2002
Public finance solutions to high unemployment in Europe have often been advocated during the past years. With unemployment concentrated among the young and unskilled, it has been suggested that the reduction of social security contributions for low wage earnings, financed by a carbon tax, could...
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The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in Italy
de Dominicis, Laura; Arbia, Giuseppe; de Groot, Henri L.F. - 2007
to take spatial dependence into account. Using data for Italy for the years 1991 and 2001, we apply exploratory spatial …
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The Italian block of the ESCB multi-country model
Angelini, Elena; D’Agostino, Antonello; McAdam, Peter - 2006
This paper documents the structure, estimation and simulation properties of the Italian block of the ESCB-multi-country model (MCM). The model is used regularly as an input into Eurosystem projection exercises and, to a lesser extent, in simulation analysis. The specification of the Italian...
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Does it pay to have the euro? Italy’s politics and financial markets under the lira and the euro
Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2009
’s prosperity. The paper focuses on olitical events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in … 1999 has helped insulate Italy’s financial markets from the adverse consequences of its traditionally unstable political … system. We find that important political events have exerted a statistically and economically significant effect on Italy …
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EMU and the adjustment to asymmetric shocks: the case of Italy
Amisano, Gianni; Giammarioli, Nicola; Stracca, Livio - 2009
at a time-varying VAR model of Italy’s relative performance compared with the rest of the euro area, spanning from 1976 …
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The amenity value of the Italian climate
Maddison, David; Bigano, Andrea - 1997
The hedonic literature suggests that locations with more favourable characteristics should display compensating wage and residential land price differentials. Using the hedonic price technique estimates of the willingness to pay for small changes in some key characteristics of the Italian...
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