This work provides an empirical assessment of the 'sophistication' of the Italian international specialization pattern and of its evolution during the period 1980 - 2000. In particular, we discuss the Italian 'anomaly', i.e. the evidence that Italy displays a specialization pattern more similar...

This work provides an empirical assessment of the 'sophistication' of the Italian international specialization pattern and of its evolution during the period 1980-2000. In particular we analyse the well-known Italian trade 'anomaly' combining the information coming from the PRODY index (Hausmann...

<span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt">This work provides an empirical assessment of the 'sophistication' of the Italian international</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">specialization pattern and of its evolution during the period 1980</span><em><span style="font-size: 10pt">¡</span></em><span style="font-size: 10pt">2000. In particular we analyse</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">the well-known Italian trade 'anomaly' combining the information coming from the PRODY index</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">(Hausmann...</span></span>

This work provides an empirical assessment of the ’sophistication’ of the Italian international specialization pattern and of its evolution during the period 1980−2000. In particular we discuss the Italian ’anomaly’, i.e. the evidence that Italy displays a specialization pattern more...

We present a novel argument demonstrating that when trade is characterized by uncertainty the comparative advantages doctrine is misleading and a positive level of diversification is growth enhancing. Applying a result developed in the mathematical biological literature, we show that, in...

This paper analyzes how increasing trade integration affects individual utility when the international specialization pattern is stochastic, i.e. when the number of varieties each country produces depends on the realization of a random variable. I employ a Ricardian continuum of goods model to...

This paper analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects of violence on both the duration time to the first birth in the early post-genocide period and on the total number of post-genocide births per woman up to 15 years following the conflict. We use...

This paper investigates the effect of conflicts on firms' output value and input misallocation in the context of Palestine during the Second Intifada. Using a unique establishment-level dataset, we firms' outcomes and input usage over time across districts experiencing differential changes in...

We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during...