We econometrically investigate the heterogeneous ability of Italian exporting sectors at coping with the Covid-19 shock, which affected in an idiosyncratic fashion both supply, mainly due to the selective suspension of non-essential activities in the country during the lockdown in March-April...

In this paper we investigate whether new exporter firms have a higher probability of starting to export to the countries where their financing banks have already established their branches. The underlying mechanism we hypothesize is based on the transmission of foreign market knowledge from...