The paper examines the fragmentation of production from the view-point of industrialised countries. From this perspective, the following questions are addressed: how do local systems evolve in the process of de-localisation of productions? Which are the short term and long term effects to be...

During the past decade all industrial countries attracted sizeable inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), excluding Italy and Japan: this fact has been interpreted as evidencing a deterioration in Italy�s structural competitiveness. This paper presents the results of a survey conducted...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro presenta un quadro delle statistiche disponibili sull’internazionalizzazione del sistema produttivo italiano. Le diverse fonti disponibili sono messe a confronto in termini di completezza, coerenza e compatibilità, tempestività degli aggiornamenti, frequenza e...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro presenta alcune analisi su IDE e scambi internazionali di servizi basate sui microdati sottostanti alle statistiche di bilancia dei pagamenti. I microdati sono in grado di evidenziare e mitigare alcuni limiti informativi delle statistiche ufficiali, ormai non più...

Statistical measurement of Italy�s international investment position is subject to considerable uncertainty, owing essentially to the presence of errors and omissions in the balance of payments. The entries under this item became very substantial at the start of the 1990s, coinciding with...

Using data from Ufficio italiano dei cambi for the period 1997-2001, the study analyses the distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows by sector and local area of origin. It tries to identify which local industrial structures determine a larger propensity to invest abroad, focusing...

This paper stresses the role of absolute productivities and absolute advantages, instead of relative productivities and comparative advantages, in the determination of the existence and pattern of international trade. It owes to the contribution of Brewer’s (1985) article, which follows an...

the paper interprets the initial 50 years of the Kingdom of Italy in the light of external balance. It presents estimates of capital flows, discusses the problems connected to the balance of payments and to domestic equilibrium

The substantial amount of undeclared foreign assets reported by disclosure schemes and analyses of international balance of payments statistics suggest that foreign assets held by Italians, as is the case in other countries, are greatly underestimated, in particular in the sector of portfolio...

Italian Abstract: A tre anni di distanza dagli eventi della Primavera Araba, i 5 paesi del nord Africa – Algeria, Egitto, Libia, Marocco e Tunisia (NA5) – si trovano ancora ad affrontare una difficile fase di transizione, dopo che attese iniziali di un rapido rinnovamento sono state in parte...