sectors are weighed down by the structural barriers that have depressed productivity more broadly. Italy’s future …In Italy, price-based competitiveness measures are not always an accurate predictor of trade outcomes. This paper … Italy’s export market share. Overall, Italy maintains a high-quality export mix, and the adaptability of small …

We investigate the drivers of firm level productivity in catching-up economies by jointly estimating its relationship … competition and innovation have a simultaneous positive effect on labour productivity in terms of either sales or value added per … productivity. …

direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing technology - are petering out, and are yet to be substituted. We propose …