<!--Début du contenu @xml:lang="en"-->?Supplier firms selling intermediate inputs/goods to other producers operate and even proliferate in both developed and developing countries, especially after the considerable decline in vertical integration occurred within most industries in the last decades. In the past, most of the studies...

Our empirical study aims at identifying the determinants of Information Technology (IT) adoption by small and medium sized Italian manufacturing firms (100 employees). An ordered probit analysis is conducted on a sample of about 17,000 firms surveyed by the Italian statistical institute (Istat),...

Our empirical study aims at identifying the determinants of Information Technology (IT) adoption by small and medium sized Italian manufacturing firms. An ordered probit analysis is conducted on a sample of about 17 000 firms surveyed by the Italian Statistical Institute, using as a dependent...

Based on a large panel of Italian SMEs, this paper focuses on the relationship between firms' default probability and the amount of bank debt they obtain, evaluating whether and to what extent this link is affected by the degree of competition characterizing the local credit market where firms...

We investigate whether non-reciprocal preferential regimes granted by the European Union have an impact on agricultural export flows from beneficiary countries while accounting for the costs of compliance that may prevent exporters from taking full advantage of potential benefits. Compliance...

This note investigates the role of institutional differences at the local level as determinants of firms' capital structure. Specifically, its aim is to empirically assess whether and to what extent SMEs' financial decisions are affected by local financial development – evaluating this...

Since 1980 several developing countries have received World Bank structural loans, aimed at opening their economy to international trade. By estimating a gravity equation on a panel of 180 countries, observed from 1962 to 2010, we investigate whether the Bank's programs have affected the export...

Using micro-data on small- and medium-sized enterprises, this paper empirically investigates the “signalling hypothesis” formulated on the role of trade credit (Biais and Gollier in Rev Financ Stud 10: 903–937, <CitationRef CitationID="CR19">1997</CitationRef>; Burkart and Ellingsen in Am Econ Rev 94: 569–590, <CitationRef CitationID="CR30">2004</CitationRef>). The research...</citationref></citationref>

Adopting a gravity framework and using data from 1995 to 2009 for France, Italy and Spain, we investigate whether the designation of the production area has a positive pay-off in terms of greater export values, volumes and presence in different export markets. We find that quality wines produced...