Economic activity is concentrated in urban areas and during the 20th century the urban population grew at a faster rate than the national average in many countries. Why is this the case? In this paper we focus on the urban premium in firms' productivity. We run two exercises. First, we document...

It is frequently argued that the geographical context in which firms operate can have a crucial impact on their propensity to internationalize. In this paper, we present the results of an empirical analysis that examines the determinants of export performance for a sample including more than...

This paper investigate the effects of the prolonged double-dip recession on the productive capacity of the Italian manufacturing sector, employing three methods: a production function approach, a survey-based methodology and a statistical filtering of the industrial production series. We...

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...