This paper examines the microfoundations of the determinants of international
competitiveness. It does so within the broader “technology gap” perspective whereby wide …

Evolutionary theories of economic change identify the processes of idiosyncratic learning by
individual firms and of market selection as the two main drivers of the dynamics of industries …

This paper investigates the channels linking investment and firm performance in the French
and Italian manufacturing industries and proposes a novel methodology to identify …

This work investigates how the export status of the firm influences the patterns of
employment growth at different age classes. We address this research question resorting to …

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the heterogeneous response of
exporters to real exchange rate fluctuations due to the quality of imported inputs and …

In this work, we analyze the relationship between the patterns of firm diversification, if any,
across product lines and across bodies of innovative knowledge, proxied by the patent …

The paper presents a new framework to assess firm level heterogeneity and to study the rate
and direction of technical change. Building on the analysis of revealed short‐run production …

This paper offers both a theoretical framework and empirical evidence on the role that the
two gravity forces, namely market size and geographical distance, have indirectly through …

We build a simple international trade model to study how the interaction between imperfect
market selection and technological learning jointly shapes trade patterns as well as firm and …

The paper provides novel evidence on the heterogeneous response of exporting firms to
exchange rate movements. Italian firm-level trade data by product and destination indeed …