Conti, Giuliano; Turco, Alessia Lo; Maggioni, Daniela - In: Empirica 41 (2014) 4, pp. 589-617
We provide evidence on the firm level productivity effects of imports of intermediates. By exploiting a large panel of Italian manufacturing firms, we are able to separately explore the role of importing from high and low income countries. Importing does not permanently affect the firm...