The main idea of this paper is that bank internationalization might encourage exports as banks' foreign branches and representative offices provide financial and informational support to exporting firms. This hypothesis has been tested using bank and firm data at Italian province-level between...

A theory of the potential interplay between capital structure and the ability to fund internationalization is offered. The literature on the possible influence of financial resources on the pace of internationalization is reviewed.Findings are presented from semi-structured, face-to-face...

While the influence of import competition on the decline of the manufacturing industry in the United States receives much attention in both the general press and academic literature, recent studies suggest that some firms are successful in establishing themselves domestically and immediately...