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

Empirical research in international trade has shown that exporting firms display higher
productivity than their non-exporting competitors. This paper focuses on the relation …

Italy ranked last in terms of manufacturing productivity growth according to OECD estimates
over the last decade, with a flat, if not declining, trend. In this work we investigate the …

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 …

Italy ranked last in terms of manufacturing productivity growth according to OECD estimates
over the last decade with a flat, if not declining, trend. In this work we investigate the …

This paper examines the determinants of international competitiveness. The first part
addresses the issue of cost and technological competition in a sample of fifteen OECD …

Italy's manufacturing performance in the last decade was the worst of all the other major
OECD countries. The study investigates the micro-dynamics underlying the aggregate trend …

This paper studies the impact of size on labour cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing
firms. The distributions of both labour cost and productivity display a wide support, even …

Using firm level data this study investigates the relation between export activity and firm's
profitability. The paper shows that, contrary to other performance indicators such as …

Technical Appendix to Intermediaries in International Trade: margins of trade and export flows
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