share of world trade were accompanied by a perceptible process of manufacturing transformation. This paper, using data from …

Italian manufacturing firms have been losing ground with respect to many of their European competitors. This paper … Italian manufacturing firms conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia, which cover the period 1995-2003. Using a modified version of … the goal of understanding the roots of such poor performance. We use firm level data from the last three surveys on …

(ISDB), which includes data comparable across a certain number of industrial countries for the most important manufacturing …

Using a very large panel dataset of Italian manufacturing firms, we test an empirical model of foreign markets … exchange rate determined substantial flows of firms in and out of foreign markets. We find that sunk costs of exporting are … the 1990s can be considerable and long-lasting. We then relate sunk costs to firm size and find that they are an important …

This paper investigates the markup of price over marginal cost in Italian manufacturing branches. The approach used is …

what happens for exports. FDI outflows are mainly generated from large firms in capital-intensive industries. Beyond …

In this paper we estimate the demand for liquidity by US non financial firms using data from COMPUSTAT database. In … contrast to the previous literature, we consider firm-specific effects, such as cost-of-capital and wages. From the balanced … and unbalanced panel estimations we infer that there are economies of scale in money demand by US business firms, because …

pressure exerted by firms located in the developing countries and specialized in key product sectors of Italian manufacturing …. This paper contributes by explicitly quantifying the effects of this competition on the efficiency of Italian manufacturing … firms and sectors. The exercise exploits the exogenous nature of the entry into international markets of competing firms …

competition fosters R&D intensity, especially for high-tech firms. Firm size, R&D intensity, along with investment in equipment … success from firm surveys along with the usual R&D expenditures and productivity measures. We then apply the model to data on … Italian SMEs from the �Survey on Manufacturing Firms� conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia covering the period 1995 …

the lagged multinational growth by Italian manufacturing companies, a quick glimpse of business histories is given to the …