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Intermediaries in international trade : direct versus indirect modes of export
Bernard, Andrew B.; Grazzi, Marco; Tomasi, Chiara - 2010
This paper examines the factors that give rise to intermediaries in exporting and explores the implications for trade volumes. Export intermediaries such as wholesalers serve different markets and export different products than manufacturing exporters. In particular, high market-specific fixed...
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Measuring the Price Elasticity of Import Demand in the Destination Markets of Italian Export
Felettigh, Alberto - 2011
The aim of this paper is to compare the price elasticity of import demand in the destination markets of Italian exports to the price elasticity in the destination markets of the other main euro-area countries' exports. To this end, we use the elasticities of substitution across varieties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128116
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Supply Chains and the Internalization of SMEs : Evidence from Italy
Giovannetti, Giorgia - 2014
This paper explores the impact of being part of a supply chain on the internationalization of firms. We show that even small and less productive firms, if involved in production chains, can take advantage of reduced costs of entry and economies of scale that enhance their probability to become...
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Domestic and Foreign Sales : Complements or Substitutes?
Bugamelli, Matteo - 2015
How are the dynamics of foreign and domestic sales correlated at the firm level? The question is relevant in that the sign of the correlation shapes the international transmission of shocks and the effects of policy measures. From a theoretical perspective, the correlation could be either zero,...
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'The Phenomenal Cat' : Firms Clawing the Goods of Others
Di Nino, Virginia - 2016
Using results collected for the first time through interviews with Italian manufacturing firms, this work shows that around a quarter of aggregate manufacturing sales are not sold by the actual producer. This circumstance, known as carry along trade (CAT), means that the comparative advantage of...
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Restructuring the international textile production and trade network : the role of Italy and Portugal
Schütz, Marlies; Palan, Nicole - 2015
of two major textile producing countries in the EU15, i.e. Italy and Portugal between the two years 1995 and 2009. As a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374039
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Restructuring of the international clothing and textile trade network : the role of Italy and Portugal
Schütz, Marlies Hanna; Palan, Nicole - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 5 (2016) 16, pp. 1-29
's two most prominent C&T-goods producing countries-Italy and Portugal. We explore these two countries' situation in a global … more oriented toward C&T-production activities which generate high value added, whereas Portugal was less productive and … relatively more specialized into the production of labor-intensive C&T-goods. Thus, Portugal was more prone to the rising …
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Spatial Externalities and Empirical Analysis: The Case of Italy
Mion, Giordano - 2003
In the last ten years the space issue, i.e. the study of the role played by space in economic phenomena, has attracted a lot of interest from many economic fields. The combination of increasing returns, market imperfections, and trade costs creates forces that, together with factor endowments,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297289
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The long Italian stagnation and the welfare effects of outsourcing
Zotti, Jacopo - 2015
The stagnation of the Italian economy over the last two decades is widely documented. During this period, the world economy has become highly integrated, and foreign outsourcing has become a standard practice for firms. While trade theory predicts benefits from the internationalization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438940
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Spatial externalities and empirical analysis : the case of Italy
Mion, Giordano - 2003
In the last ten years the space issue, i.e. the study of the role played by space in economic phenomena, has attracted a lot of interest from many economic fields. The combination of increasing returns, market imperfections, and trade costs creates forces that, together with factor endowments,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448652