The main idea of this paper is that bank internationalization might encourage exports as banks' foreign branches and representative offices provide financial and informational support to exporting firms. This hypothesis has been tested using bank and firm data at Italian province-level between...

Do financial crises have an impact on trade flows via a shock to corporate risk or to bank risk? Focusing on Italy's exports during a period characterized by both the global financial crisis and by the sovereign debt crisis, we exploit the prediction of standard trade models according to which...