Italian Abstract: Il passaggio al 6° manuale della bilancia dei pagamenti (BPM6) ha implicato una revisione significativa degli standard internazionali per la compilazione delle statistiche sull’estero (flussi e stock); come da accordi internazionali, la ricostruzione è stata effettuata a...

This paper analyses the main drivers of Italian service exports using firm-level data. A gravity equation, augmented with firm characteristics and FDI variables, is estimated using a panel of Italian exporters constructed by merging two datasets, the first on international trade in services and...

Italian Abstract: Il passaggio al 6° manuale della bilancia dei pagamenti (BPM6) ha implicato una revisione significativa degli standard internazionali per la compilazione delle statistiche sull’estero (flussi e stock). Il presente lavoro, di natura esclusivamente statistica, effettua una...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro illustra la metodologia e i principali risultati dell'indagine campionaria sui trasporti internazionali di merci che la Banca d'Italia conduce dal 1999, presentando una ricostruzione delle serie storiche aggregate fino al 1989. L'indagine si basa su molteplici fonti...

The substantial amount of undeclared foreign assets reported by disclosure schemes and analyses of international balance of payments statistics suggest that foreign assets held by Italians, as is the case in other countries, are greatly underestimated, in particular in the sector of portfolio...

The technology balance of payments concerns external transactions in disembodied technology. Since the introduction in Italy of a new data collection system based mainly on direct reporting by enterprises, credits and debits tend to be appreciably greater than they had been under the old system...

This work contributes to the small but growing body of literature on international trade in services at firm level. Our dataset, based on a new Bank of Italy survey, provides information on exports and imports of services (excluding transportation and travel) in 2008-09 for almost 3,000 Italian...

The analyses of the international investment position and balance of payments statistics suggest that foreign assets held abroad are greatly underestimated, in particular in the sector of portfolio investments. The aim of this work is to test this hypothesis and to estimate the magnitude of...

The paper describes the methodology and the main results of the sample survey on international merchandise transport that the Bank of Italy has carried out since 1999, with a reconstruction of the aggregate time series to 1989. We have obtained information on the different transport modes from...