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...

Using data on Italy's outward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows by sector, source province and destination country between 1997 and 2001, this paper studies the determinants of Italy's foreign direct investment (FDI). The aim is to identify the industrial structure and local characteristics...

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...