The growing complexity of the financing and ownership structures of multinational enterprises (MNEs) leads to control chains that extend across a number of countries and obscure the ultimate sources and destinations of foreign direct investment (FDI). This results in what is known in the...

The rising number of foreign workers in Italy during the last fifteen years has led to a conspicuous increase in the amount of remittances sent abroad. In this paper we examine thedeterminants of remittance outflows originated in Italy and transferred abroad through registeredfinancial...

This paper analyses the evolution of Italian investment income flows in relation to the corresponding financial stocks in the international investment position. The period under scrutiny is from 1999 to 2016, covering all developments since the beginning of monetary union. The analysis is based...

This paper provides new Bank of Italy indicators of price competitiveness for 62 countries. We refreshed the approach adopted by the Bank in the 1990s but later discontinued in 2005 due to the cumbersome statistical requirements in order to accommodate the significant extension of the original...

Using an extension of the methodology proposed by Koopman, Wang and Wei (2014) for quantifying the domestic value added in a country's exports of manufactures, this paper provides calculations of the market shares in value-added for a number of countries and compares them with the standard...