This paper estimates the survival time of nearly 7,000 firms in a dozen high-income and
middle-income countries in a scenario of extreme economic distress, using the World Bank's …

Recessions are complex events that create highly unpredictable and unstable business
environments. When faced with such events, firm survival depends only limitedly on …

The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has been severe as reflected in recently
released GDP numbers for the first quarter of 2020 and predictions for the rest of the year …

This study investigates regional trade resilience and the role of the EU cohesion policy to
support exports during the first wave of the Covid-19 crisis. We compare regional export …

We investigate the relationship between spatial agglomeration and firms' labor productivity
in Italy and Spain, examining firm-level heterogeneity in Global Value Chain positioning. We …

This paper investigates the effect of participation in global value chains (GVCs) on firms'
efficiency and explores heterogeneity in this impact across different firms, according to GVC …

Interpreted as a solution to employment and productivity stagnation and, more recently, to
protect the EU economy from undesirable and critical dependence, back-shoring is strongly …

This study investigates the degree of consistency and fungibility of micro and macro sources
of global value chain (GVC) data. We combine two datasets for selected European countries …

How does Italy position inside the European structure of trade relationships? How labour
bilateral flows have changed over time? Which type of employment activity has been …

This chapter provides an overview on the evolution of Global Value Chains (GVCs) and on
how they were impacted by Covid-19. Evidence from recent studies on Italy shows that …