This paper investigates whether the arrival of managers with export experience, i.e. experience acquired through participation in the export activity of previous employers, is related to firms' international trade status and to what extent this relationship is of a causal nature. We construct a...

<i> Riforma delle pensioni: transizione, mercato del lavoro e dei capitali </i> (di Luca David Opromolla) - ABSTRACT: We use a simulation of the evolution of the Italian social security system, to analyze the level and distribution of the costs related to the transition from a Pay-As-You-Go social...

Casual empiricism suggests that additive trade costs, such as quotas, per-unit tariffs, and, in part, transportation costs, are prevalent. In spite of this, we have no broad and systematic evidence of the magnitude of these costs. We develop a new empirical framework for estimating additive...