The aim of this paper is to evaluate whether domestic and foreign activities of Italian firms are mainly substitutes or complements. We take advantage of a unique firm-level panel data set from the Bank of Italy Survey of Industrial and Service Firms, which provides information on the...

The aim of this paper is to examine the role of industrial districts, sector-specific and non-sector specific agglomeration economies in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Italian regions and provinces. We found that Italian inward FDI are positively affected by specialization...

This paper investigates empirically whether inward greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) is related to greater sectorial innovation in the host Italian provinces. We combine several sources of data to estimate panel count models, regressing the annual number of patents in each province and...