Estimating on Italian data the empirical model proposed by Roberts and Tybout (1997), we find that that sunk costs of exports are quite relevant: an exporting firm at year t, which has therefore has already paid such costs, has a probability of exporting in the next year that is 70 percentage...

This paper provides a new cross-country evaluation of competitiveness, focusing on the linkages between productivity and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to establish new stylized facts regarding the joint distributions...

This paper provides a new cross-country evaluation of competitiveness, focusing on the linkages between productivity and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to establish new stylized facts regarding the joint distributions...