This aim of this paper is to study the characteristics of the internationalisation process and to identify its determinants in a representative sample of firms in the Italian automotive chain. The main findings of an econometric analysis based on micro-evidence are that: a) the firms engage in...

We study the internationalisation process in a representative sample of 786 firms in the Italian automotive supply chain. Most of these firms have agglomerated in the Turin industrial district, the cradle of FIAT, the dominant Italian car-maker and one of the global players in the automotive...

In this paper we analyse the so called "planning contracts" which were adopted by the Italian Government in 1986 to promote industrial development in the South, that is the least favoured area of the country. The paper is organised in two sections. First, we present a full and detailed picture...