Working Papers
The Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano publishes a series of working papers in development and international economics. Between 1997 and 2001 the Luca d’Agliano Series was jointly published with Queen Elizabeth House, the International Development Centre of Oxford University. The publication is funded by the Banca d’Italia and by the Fondazione CRT of Turin. LdA working papers are also available on the SSRN and RePec eLibrary.
2012
331 – South-South Migration and the Labor Market: Evidence from South Africa
Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda, Mariapia Mendola
330 - Spending More is Spending Less: Policy Dilemmas on Irregular Migration
Alessandra Casarico, Giovanni Facchini, and Tommaso Frattini
329 - Crossing Industrial Borders: German Manufacturers as Services Exporters
Markus Kelle
328 - A Firm-Level Perspective on Migration
Giulia Bettin, Alessia Lo Turco, and Daniela Maggioni
2011
326 – Immigration: The European Experience
Christian Dustmann and Tommaso Frattini
325 - What Drives Individual Attitudes towards Immigration in South Africa?
Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda, and Mariapia Mendola
324 – Factor Intesity, Product Switching, and Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Exporters
Yue Ma, Heiwai Tang, and Yifan Zhang
323 – Imported Inputs and Skill Upgrading
Rosario Crinò
322 – Verti-zontal Differentiation in Monopolistic Competition
Francesco Di Comite, Jacques-François Thisse, and Hylke Vandenbussche
321 – Xenophobic Attacks, Migration Intentions and networks: Evidence from the South of Africa
Guido Friebel, Juan Miguel Gallego, and Mariapia Mendola
320 – Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Data to Improve Our Understanding of Poverty in Uganda
Diego Angemi
319 – Education, teenage fertility and labor market participation, evidence from Ecuador
Anna De Paoli
318 – Parental Health and Child Schooling
Massimilliano Bratti and Mariapia Mendola
317 – Measuring Household Vulnerability in the Context of Poverty Eradication: Evidence from Uganda
Diego Angemi
316 – Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters
Thierry Mayer, Marc J. Melitz, and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
315 – Child Labour: Insights from an Agricultural Household Model
Diego Angemi
314 – Educational Achievement of Second Generation Immigrants: An International Comparison
Christian Dustmann, Tommaso Frattini and Gianandrea Lazzara
forthcoming in Economic Policy
313 – FDI and growth: What cross-country industry data say
Maria Cipollina, Giorgia Giovannetti, Filomena Pietrovito and Alberto Franco Pozzolo
312 – New Imported Inputs, New Domestic Products
Italo Colantone and Rosario Crinò
311 – Policymakers’ Horizon and Trade Reforms
Paola Conconi, Giovanni Facchini and Maurizio Zanardi
310 - The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Towards Temporary Migrants
Gil S. Epstein and Alessandra Venturini
309 - Export Growth and Factor Market Competition: Theory and Evidence
Julian Emami Namini, Giovanni Facchini and Ricardo A. Lopez
308 – The Impact of New Immigration in native Wages: A Cross-occupation Analysis of a Small Open Economy
Heiwai Tang and Stan Hok-Wui Wong
307 - Emigration and Democracy
Frédéric Docquier, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Hillel Rapoport and Maurice Schiff
306 - Are Exporters More Likely to Introduce Product Innovations?
Massimiliano Bratti and Giulia Felice
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305 – IMF Lending in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in the Wake of the Global Crisis
Andrea F. Presbitero and Alberto Zazzaro
304 – Migration and Culture
Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang
303 – The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Immigration
Giovanni Facchini and Cecilia Testa
302 – Immigration and Occupations in Europe
Francesco D’Amuri and Giovanni Peri
301 – Labor Market Institutions, Firm-specific Skills, and Trade Patterns
Heiwai Tang
300 – Total Public Debt and Growth in Developing Countries
Andrea F. Presbitero
299 – Remittances and Financial Openness
Michel Beine, Elisabetta Lodigiani and Robert Vermuelen
298 – Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri and Greg. C. Wright
297 – Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace
Gil S. Epstein and Yosef Mealem
296 – How Offshoring Can Affect the Industries’ Skill Composition
Daniel Horgos and Lucia Tajoli
295 – A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics
Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang
294 – What drives US Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes
Giovanni Facchini and Max Steinhardt
published in 2011 in Journal of Public Economics, vol. 95, pp. 734-743
293 – Do Terms-of-Trade Effects Matter for Trade Agreements? Evidence from WTO Countries
Rodney D. Ludema and Anna Maria Mayda
292 – Multinational Banking in Europe: Financial Stability and Regulatory Implications. Lessons from the Financial Crisis
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Giacomo Calzolari, Alberto Franco Pozzolo and Micol Levi
published in 2010 in Economic Policy, vol. 25, pp. 703-753
291 – Liquidity Constraints and Firm’s Export Activity
Emanuele Forlani
290 – A Ricardo-Viner Approach to Service Offshoring
Daniel Horgos
289 – The Determinants of Vertical Integration in Export Processing: Theory and Evidence from China
Ana Fernandes and Heiwai Tang
288 – Determinants and Uses of Remittances to Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries: Insights from a New Survey
Luis Miotti, El Mouhoub Mouhoud and Joel Oudinet
287 – Networks, Sorting and Self-selection of Ecuadorian Migrants
Simone Bertoli
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286 – Employment Effects of Service Offshoring: Evidence from Matched Firms
Rosario Crinò
published in 2010 in Economics Letters, vol. 107(2), pp.253-256
285 – Illegal Immigration and Media Exposure: Evidence on Individual Attitudes
Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda and Riccardo Puglisi
284 – The Evolution of Markets and the Revolution of Industry: A Unified Theory of Growth
Klaus Desmet and Stephen L. Parente
283 – SMEs in Argentina: Who are the Exporters?
Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Christian Volpe Martincus
published in 2009 in Small Business Economics
282 – Firm Heterogeneity, Contract Enforcement, and the Industry Dynamics of Offshoring
Alireza Naghavi and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
published in 2009 in Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol.111(4), pp. 629-653
281 – Individual Attitudes towards Skilled Migration: an Empirical Analysis across Countries
Giovanni Facchini and Anna Maria Mayda
forthcoming in The World Economy
280 – Entrepreneurship and Market Size. The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy
Sabrina Di Addario and Daniela Vuri
published in 2010 in Labour Economics, vol. 17(5), pp. 848-858
279 – Labor Migration and Social Networks Participation: Evidence from Southern Mozambique
Juan Miguel Gallego and Mariapia Mendola
278 – Testing Models of Distributive Politics using Exit Polls to Measure Voters’ Preferences and Partisanship
Valentino Larcinese, James M. Snyde, and Cecilia Testa
forthcoming in British Journal of Political Science
277 - Diaspora Externalities as a Cornerstone of the New Brain Drain Literature
Elisabetta Lodigiani
276 – Does ICT Investment Spur or Hamper Offshoring? Empirical Evidence from Microdata
Luigi Benfratello, Tiziano Razzolini and Alessandro Sembenelli
275 – The Trade Creation Effect of Immigrants: Testing the Theory on the Remarkable case of Spain
Giovanni Peri and Francisco Requena
published in 2010 in Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 43(4), pp. 1433-1459
274 – Read my Lips: the Role of Information Transmission in multilateral reform design
Silvia Marchesi, Laura Sabani and Axel Dreher
published in 2011 in Journal of International Economics, vol. 84, pp. 86-98
273 – The wage impact of immigration in Germany – new evidence for skill groups and occupations
Max Friedrich Steinhardt
published in 2011 in B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, vol. 11(1)
272 – International Migration and Gender Differentials in the Home Labor Market: Evidence from Albania
Mariapia Mendola and Gero Carletto
271 - Productivity, Quality and Export Behavior
Rosario Crinò and Paolo Epifani (Revised version of “Firm-Export Intensity and Productivity”, September 2011)
270 – Productivity and the international firm: dissecting heterogeneity
Davide Castellani and Giorgia Giovannetti
published in 2010 in Journal of Economic Policy Reform, vol. 13(1), pp. 25-42
269 – Firm-Specific Factor Market Constraints and FDI: Evidence from Germany
Christian Arndt, Claudia M. Buch and Anselm Mattes
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268 – Barriers to exporting: Firm-Level Evidence from Germany
Christian Arndt, Claudia M. Buch and Anselm Mattes
267 – The Determinants of Intra-Firm Trade
Gregory Corcos, Delphine M. Irac, Giordano Mion and Thierry Verdier
266 – Does citizenship matter? The economic impact of naturalizations in Germany
Max Friedrich Steinhardt
265 – Migration Enclaves, Schooling Choices and Social Mobility
Mario Piacentini
264 – The Costums Unions Issue: Why do we observe so few of them?
Giovanni Facchini, Peri Silva and Gerald Willmann
263 – Global Manufacturing SO2 Emissionss: Does Trade Matter?
Jean Marie Grether, Nicole A. Mathys and Jaime de Melo
published in 2010 in Review of World Economics, vol. 145(4), pp. 713-729
262 – Trade Liberalization and Organizational Change
Paola Conconi, Patrick Legros, and Andrew F. Newman
261 – FDI, the Brain Drain and Trade: Channels and Evidence
Artjoms Ivlevs and Jaime de Melo
260 – Does Family Control Affect Trade Performance? Evidence for Italian Firms
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Riccardo Faini and Alessandra Tucci
259 – Disentangling Market Access Effects for ASEAN Members under an ASEAN-EU FTA
Céline Carrère, Jaime de Melo and Bolormaa Tumurchudur
published in 2010 in World Economy, vol. 33(1), pp. 42-59
258 – Foreign Market Conditions and Export Performance: Evidence from Italian Firm-Level Data
Holger Breinlich and Alessandra Tucci
published in 2011 in Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 44(3), pp. 991-1019
257 – Can Offshoring Reduce Unemployment?
Devashish Mitra and Priya Ranjan
256 – Do Interest Groups Affects US Immigration Policy?
Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda and Prachi Mishra
published in 2011 in Journal of International Economics, vol. 85(1), pp. 114-128
255 – Brain Drain with FDI Gain? Factor Mobility between Eastern and Western Europe
Gianfranco De Simone and Miriam Manchin
254 – Do Countries Free Ride on MFN?
Rodney D. Ludema and Anna Maria Mayda
published in 2009 in Journal of International Economics, vol.77(2), pp. 137-150
253 – Social Determinants of Labor Market Status of Ethnic Minorities in Britain
Martin Kahanec and Mariapia Mendola
published in 2009 in Polachek S., and K. Tatsiramos (ed.), “Ethnicity and Labor Market Outcomes” , Research in Labor Economics, vol. 29, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.167-195
252 – Task Specialisation, Immigration and Wages
Giovanni Peri and Chad Sparber
published in 2009 in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol. 1(3), pp. 135-169
251 – From Individual Attitudes towards Migrants to Migration Policy Outcomes. Theory and Evidence
Giovanni Facchini and Anna Maria Mayda
published in 2008 in Economic Policy, vol. 23, pp. 651-713
250 – Offshoring: General Equilibrium Effects on Wages, Production and Trade
Richard Baldwin and Frédéric Robert-Nicoud
249 – Rules of Origin and Gains from Trade
Earl L. Grinols and Peri Silva
published in 2010 in Economic Theory
248 – How do Very Open Economies Absorb Large Immigration Flows? Recent Evidence from Spanish Regions
Libertad Gonzalez and Francesc Ortega
published in 2011 in Labour Economics, vol. 18(1), pp. 57-70
247 – Do South-South Trade Agreements Increase Trade? Commodity-Level Evidence from COMESA
Anna Maria Mayda and Chad Steinberg
published in 2009 in Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 42(4), pp. 1361-1389
246 – Fast Track Authority and International Trade Negotiations
Paola Conconi, Giovanni Facchini, and Maurizio Zanardi
forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
245 – Offshoring and Immigrant Employment: Firm-level Theory and Evidence
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Giuseppe Bertola, and Alessandro Sembenelli
244 – The Impact of Material Offshoring on employment in the Italian Manufacturing Industries: the Relevance of Intersectoral Effects
Simone Bertoli
243 – The Impoverishing Effect of Ill Health: Evidence from the Western Balkans
Mariapia Mendola, Caryn Bredenkamp, and Michele Gragnolati
242 – Individual Earnings, International Outsourcing and Technological Change
Chiara Broccolini, Alessia Lo Turco, Andrea F. Presbitero, and Stefano Staffolani
published in 2011 in International Economic Journal, vol. 25(1), pp. 25-46
241 – Supplier-Buyer Proximity and Production to Order Choice
Lorenzo Casaburi and G. Alfredo Minerva
240 – Who is Against a Common Market?
Giovanni Facchini and Cecilia Testa
published in 2009 in Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 7(5), pp. 1068-1100
239 – Opennes, Inequality, and Poverty: Endowments Matter
Julien Gourdon, Nicolas Maystre and Jaime de Melo
published in 2008 in The Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, vol. 17(3), pp. 343-378
238 – Firing at Subcontractors? Spillover Employment Effects of Offshoring in Italy
Stefano Costa and Giovanni Ferri
237 – Export Premia and Sub-Contracting Discount. Passive Strategies and performance in Domestic and Foreign Markets
Tiziano Razzolini and Davide Vannoni
published in 2011 in World Economy, vol. 34(6), pp. 984-1013
236 – Firms’ Productivity and Internationalisation Choices: Evidence for a Large Sample of Italian Firms
Luigi Benfratello and Tiziano Razzolini
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235 – Skilled Migration, FDI and Human Capital Investment
Daniele Checchi, Gianfranco De Simone and Riccardo Faini
234 – Skilled Migration and Business Networks
Frédéric Docquier and Elisabetta Lodigiani
published in 2010 in Open Economies Review, vol. 21(4), pp. 565-588
233 – Does the Welfare State Affect Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants? Evidence Across Countries
Giovanni Facchini and Anna Maria Mayda
published in 2009 in Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 91(2), pp. 295-314
232 – Relying on the Information of Others: Debt Rescheduling with Multiple Lenders
Claude Fluet and Paolo G. Garella
231 – Wages and the City. Evidence from Italy
Sabrina Di Addario and Eleonora Patacchini
published in 2008 in Labour Economics, vol. 15 (5), pp. 1040-1061
230 – Trade, Knowledge and the Industrial Revolution
Kevin H. O’Rourke, Ahmed S. Rahman and Alan M. Taylor
229 – Substitutability and Protectionism: Latin America’s Trade Policy and Imports from China and India
Giovanni Facchini, Marcelo Olarreaga, Peri Silva and Gerald Willmann
published in 2010 in The World Bank Economic Review
228 – Optimal Taxation of Capital Income in Models with Endogenous Fertility
Alberto Petrucci
227 – The Evolution of the World Trade and the Italian ‘Anomaly’: A New Look
Michele Di Maio and Federico Tamagni
puiblished in 2008 in Rivista di Politica Economica, vol. 98(1), pp. 135-174
226 – Current Account Composition and Sustainability of External Debt
Gianpaolo Rossini and Paolo Zanghieri
published in 2009 in Applied Economics, vol. 41(5), pp. 677-683
225 – The Social Assimilation of Immigrants
Domenico de Palo, Riccardo Faini and Alessandra Venturini
224 – Institutions, Infrastructure and Trade
Joseph Francois and Miriam Manchin
223 – Clothes without an Emperor: Analysis of the Preferential Tariffs in ASEAN
Miriam Manchin and Annette O. Pelkmans-Balaoing
published in 2008 in Journal of Asian Economics, vol. 19(3), pp. 213-223
222 – Wake up and Smell the Ginseng: International Trade and the Rise of Incremental Innovation in Low-Wage Countries
Diego Puga and Daniel Trefler
published in 2010 in Journal of Development Economics, vol.91, pp.64-76
221 – The World Bank’s Early Reflection on Development: a Development Institution or a Bank?
Michele Alacevich
published in 2009 in Review of Political Economy, vol. 21, pp. 227-244
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220 – Specialization and Diverging Manufacturing Structures: The Aftermath of Trade Policy Reforms in Developing Countries
Antoni Estevadeordal and Christian Volpe Martincus
219 – Trade Openness and Volatility
Julian di Giovanni and Andrei A. Levchenko
published in 2009 in Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 91(3), pp. 558-585
218 – Trade Integration, Firm Selection and the Costs of Non-Europe
Massimo Del Gatto, Giordano Mion and Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano
217 – The Role of FDI in Eastern Europe and New Independent States: New Channels for the Spillover Effect
Irina Tytell and Ksenia Yudaeva
published in 2007 in Liebscher K., J. Christl, P. Mooselechner, and D. Ritzberger-Grünwald “Foreign Direct Investment in Europe. A changing landscape”
216 – Trade Liberalization and the Evolution of Skill Earnings Differentials in Brazil
Gustavo Gonzaga, Naércio Menezes Filho and Cristina Terra
published in 2006 in Journal of International Economics, vol. 68, pp. 345-367
215 – How Does Investing in Cheap Labour Countries Affect Performance at Home? France and Italy
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Davide Castellani and Anne-Célia Disdier
published in2010 in Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 62(2), pp. 234-260
214 - Remittances and the Brain Drain
Riccardo Faini
published in 2007 in World Bank Economic Review, vol. 21, pp. 177-9
213 – Exposure to Foreign Media and Changes in Cultural Traits: Evidence from Naming Patterns in France
Anne-Célia Disdier, Keith Head and Thierry Mayer
published in 2010 in Journal of International Economics, vol. 80(2), pp. 226-238
212 – Foreign Aid and Fiscal Policy
Riccardo Faini
211 – The Evolution of Citizenship: Economic and Institutional Determinants
Graziella Bertocchi and Chiara Strozzi
published in 2010 in The Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 53(1), pp. 95-136
210 – Skill Diffusion by Temporary Migration? Returns to Western European Working Experience in the EU Accession Countries
Anna Iara
209 – Migration and Foreign Direct Investment in the Globalization Context: the Case of a Small Open Economy
Artjoms Ivlevs
published in 2006 in “ European Union Enlargement of 2004 and Beyond: Responding to the Political, Legal and Socio-Economic Challenges”, Riga , University of Latvia
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208 – Foreign TaKeovers and Wages: Theory and Evidence from Hungary
Sándor Csengödi, Rolf Jungnickel and Dieter Urban
published in 2008 in Review of World Economics, vol. 144, pp.55-82
207 – Protection for Sale with Imperfect Rent Capturing
Giovanni Facchini, Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Gerald Willmann
published in 2006 in Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 39, pp. 845-873
206 – IMF Concern for Reputation and Conditional Lending Failure: Theory and Empirics
Silvia Marchesi and Laura Sabani
published in 2007 in Journal of Development Economics, vol. 84, pp. 640-666
205 – Asylum Seekers in Europe: The Warm Glow of a Hot Potato
Giovanni Facchini, Oliver Lorz and Gerarld Willmann
published in 2006 in Journal of Population Economics, vol. 19, pp. 411-430
204 – Dual Track Reforms: With and Without Losers
Jiahua Che and Giovanni Facchini
published in 2007 in Journal of Public Economics, vol. 91, pp. 2291-2306
203 – How Do Trade in Intermediates and Geographical Forces Interact in Determining the Localisation of Industries in Central Eastern European Countries?
Gianfranco De Simone
202 – Prolonged Use and Conditionality Failure: Investigating the IMF Responsibility
Silvia Marchesi and Laura Sabani
published in 2007 in G. Mavrotas, A. Shorrocks (eds.), “Advancing Development: Core Themes in Global Economics”, Palgrave-Macmillan
201 – Market Size, Trade, and Productivity
Marc J. Melitz and Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano
published in 2008 in Review of Economic Studies, vol. 75, pp. 295-316
200 – Attracting Foreign Direct Investments in Europe: are Italian Regions Doomed?
Roberto Basile, Luigi Benfratello, Davide Castellani
published in 2005 in Rivista di Politica Economica, vol. 95, pp. 319-354
199 – Trade, Foreign Networks and Performance: a Firm-Level Analysis for India
Alessandra Tucci
198 – Job Search in Thick Markets: Evidence from Italy
Sabrina Di Addario
197 – Gifted Kids or Pushy Parents? Foreign Acquisitions and Plant Performance in Indonesia
Jens Matthias Arnold and Beata Smarzynska Javorcik
published in 2009 in Journal of International Economics, vol. 79(1), pp. 42-53
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196 – Je t’aime, moi non plus: Bilateral opinions and international trade
Anne-Célia Disdier and Thierry Mayer
published in 2007 in European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 23, pp. 1140-1159
195 – Migration and Technological Change in Rural Households: Complements or Substitutes
Mariapia Mendola
published in 2008 in Journal of Development Economics, vol. 85, pp. 150-175
194 – The pace and distribution of health improvements during the last 40 years: some preliminary results
Giovanni Cornia and Leonardo Menchini
published in 2007 in Mavrotas G. and A. Shorrocks, “Advancing Development: Core Themes in Global Economics”, Palgrave
193 – Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance
Alberto Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara
published in 2005 in Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 43, pp. 762-800
192 – Trade liberalization in a globalizing world
Riccardo Faini
published in 2005 in “Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2005: Lessons of Experience”. Bourguignon, Francois. Pleskovic, Boris, eds., Washington, D.C.: World Bank; Oxford and London: Oxford University Press, pp. 195-222
191 – Who runs the IFIs?
Riccardo Faini and Enzo Grilli
190 – Wage Differentials and International Trade in Italy Using Individual Micro Data 1991-1996
Anna M. Falzoni, Alessandra Venturini and Claudia Villosio
189 – What does motivate lending and aid to the HIPCs?
Silvia Marchesi and Alessandro Missale
188 – Foreign Direct Investment, Wage Inequality, and Skilled Labor Demand in EU Accession Countries
Giovanni S.F. Bruno, Rosario Crinò and Anna M. Falzoni
187 – Who is Against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
Anna Maria Mayda
published in 2006 in The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 88(3), pp. 510-530
186 – The Puzzling Persistence of the Distance Effect on Bilateral Trade
Anne-Célia Disdier and Keith Head
published in 2008 in Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 90, pp. 37-48
185 – A Price Based Approach To Estimate The Effects Of Monetary Arrangements On Trade Integration
David C. Parsley and Shang-Jin Wei
2003 ___________________________________________________________________
184 – Export Behavior and Firm productivity in German Manufacturing. A Firm-Level Analysis
Jens Matthias Arnold and Katrin Hussinger
published in 2005 in Review of World Economics, vol. 141, pp. 219-243
183 – Location Choices of Multinational Firms in Europe: the Role of National Bourdaries and EU Policy
Roberto Basile,Davide Castellani and Antonello Zanfei
published in 2008 in Journal of International Economics, vol. 74, pp. 328-340
182 – Cost-benefit Analysis and Rates of Return of Development Projects: An International Comparison
Massimo Florio
181 – Cost-benefit analysis of Infrastructure Projects in an Enlarged European Union: an Incentive-Oriented Approach
Massimo Florio and Silvia Vignetti
published in 2005 in Economic Change and Restructuring, vol. 38, pp. 179-210
180 – Investments Abroad and Performance at Home Evidence from Italian Multinationals
Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Davide Castellani
179 – Agricultural Technology and Povertry Reduction: A Micro-Level Analysis of Causal Effects
Mariapia Mendola
published in 2007 in Food Policy, vol. 32, pp. 372-393
178 – Public Debt Management in Brazil
Alessandro Missale and Francesco Giavazzi
published in 2005 in Giavazzi, F., Goldfajn, I., e S. Herrera, “Inflation Targeting, Debt, and the Brazilian Experience”, MIT Press, Cambridge MA
177 – Working on the Train? The Role of Technical Progress and Trade in Explaining Wage Differentials in Italian Firms
Paolo Manasse and Luca Stanca
published in 2006 in Rivista di Politica Economica, vol. 96, pp. 279-307
176 – The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Enterprises in Small Backward Economies: The Case of Chad and Gabon
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Riccardo Faini and Bernard Gauthier
published in 2006 in Review of Development Economics, vol. 10, pp. 452-65
175 – GATT-Think with Asymmetric Countries
Paolo Epifani and Juliette Vitaloni
published in 2006 in Review of International Economics, vol. 14, pp. 427-444
174 – Globalization, Divergence and Stagnation
Gino A.Gancia
173 – The Brain Drain: an Unmitigated Blessing?
Riccardo Faini
2002 ___________________________________________________________________
172 – Trade Liberalization, Firm Performance and Labour Market Outcomes in the Developing World: What Can We Learn from Micro-LevelData?
Paolo Epifani
published in 2003 in Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, vol. 8(3), pp. 455-486
171 – The Twin Effects of Globalization
Francesco Daveri, Paolo Manasse and Danila Serra
published in 2011 in Rivista di Politica Economica
170 – Do Not Get Trapped into Crossing: Indian Firms and Foreign Markets
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Marzio Galeotti and Alessandra Tucci
169 – Foreign Direct Investment, Competitive Pressure and Spillovers. An Empirical Analysis on Spanish Firm Level Data
Alessandro Sembenelli and Georges Siotis
published in 2008 in Journal of International Economics, vol. 76(1), pp. 107-115
168 – Adjusting Labour Demand: Multinationals vs. National Firms: A Cross-European Analysis
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Daniele Checchi and Alessandro Turrini
published in 2003 in Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 1, pp. 708-719
167 - Vertical FDI Reviseted
Henrik Braconier, Pehr-Johan Norback and Dieter Urban
published in 2005 in Journal of International Economics, vol. 67, pp. 446-470
166 – Foreign Ownership and Productivity: is the Direction of Causality so Obvious?
Luigi Benfratello and Alessandro Sembenelli
published in 2006 in International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 24, pp. 733-751
165 – Distance and FDI when Contracts are Incomplete
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Alessandro Turrini
published in 2007 in Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 5, pp. 796-822
164 - The Veblen-Gerschenkron Effect of FDI in Mezzogiorno and East Germany
Giovanni Peri and Dieter Urban
published in 2006 in Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol. 36, pp. 72-98
163 – Self-Help Groups and Income Generation in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi
Eliana La Ferrara
published in 2002 in Journal of African Economies, vol. 11, pp. 61-89
162 – Wage Premia and Skill Upgrading in Italy: Why Didn´t the Hound Bark?
Paolo Manasse, Luca Stanca and Alessandro Turrini
published in 2004 in Labour Economics, vol. 11, pp. 59-83
161 – Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe: Employment Effects in the EU
Henrik Braconier and Karolina Ekholm
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160 – Foreign Direct Investment and the Single Market
J. Peter Neary
published in 2002 in The Manchester School, vol. 70, pp. 291-314
159 - Traders, Courts and the Home Bias Puzzle
Alessandro Turrini and Tanguy Van Ypersele
published in 2010 in Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol. 40
158 – Divergence-Is it Geography?
Thomas Straubhaar, Marc Suhrcke and Dieter Urban
157 – The Dictator and the Parties A Study on Policy Co-operation in Mineral Economies
Pablo Astorga
156 - Geography, Migrations and Equilibrium Unemployment
Paolo Epifani and Gino A. Gancia
155 – Footloose Capital, Market Access, and the Geography of Regional State Aid
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano
published in 2004 in Mucchielli J.-L. e Mayer T., ed., “Multinational Firms’ Location and the New Economic Geography”, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (UK)
154 – Weightless Machines and Costless Knowledge An Empirical Analysis of Trade and Technology Diffusion
Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Isidro Soloaga
published in 2005 in B. Hoekman and B. Smarzinska, ‘Microfoundations of International Technology Diffusion’, World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan
153 – Banks´ Inefficiency and Economic Growth A Micro-Macro Approach
Riccardo Lucchetti, Luca Papi and Alberto Zazzaro
published in 2001 in Scottish Journal of Political Economy, vol. 48, pp. 400-424
152 – Adoption of an IMF Programme and Debt Rescheduling. An Empirical Analysis
Silvia Marchesi
published in 2003 in Journal of Development Economics, vol. 70, pp. 403-423
151 – For Whom is MAI? A theoretical Perspective on Multilateral Agreements on Investments
Alessandro Turrini and Dieter M. Urban
150 – Collective Action for Local-Level Effort Regulation: an Assessment of Recent Experiences in Senegalese Small-Scale Fisheries
Frederic Gaspart and Jean-Philippe Platteau
published in 2002 in F. Stewart, R. Thorp, and J. Heyer (eds), “Group Behaviour and Development”, Oxford : Oxford University Press, pp. 75-103
149 – The Winner´s Curse: Premature Monetary Integration in the NAFTA
Valpy FitzGerald
published in 2001 in Bulmer-Thomas, V (ed) “Regional Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean: the political economy of open regionalism” London: University of London Press
2000 ___________________________________________________________________
148 – How Does the EU Agenda Influence Economies outside the EU? The Case of Tunisia
Luca Papi and Alberto Zazzaro
published in 2001 in Economia Internazionale, vol. 4, pp. 565-588
147 – Collusion and Group Lending with Adverse Selection
Jean-Jacques Laffont
published in 2003 in Journal of Development Economics, vol. 70, 329-348
146 – Why Doesn´t Development Always Succeed? The Role of a Work Ethic
Patrick Francois and Jan Zabojnik
145 – Returns to Social Network Capital among Traders
Marcel Fafchamps and Bart Minten
published in 2002 in Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 54, pp. 207-229
144 – Encroached Entitlements: Corruption and Appropriation of Irrigation Water in Southern Pun jab (Pakistan)
Jean-Paul Azam and Jean-Daniel Rinaud
143 – Dynamic Interactions between the Macro-Environment, Development Thinking and Group Behaviour
Frances Stewart
published in 2002 in Heyer J., F. Stewart, and R. Thorp “Group Behaviour and Development. Is the market destroying cooperation?”, Oxford University Press
142 – Currency Crisis and Multiple Equilibria: The Role of Co-ordination Failures among Heterogeneous Investors
Andrea Finicelli
141 – Skills, Agglomeration and Segmentation
Tomoya Mori and Alessandro Turrini
published in 2005 in European Economic Review, vol. 49, pp. 201-225
140 – Distortionary Effects of Depreciations and the Real Exchange Rate
Matteo Salto
139 – Moving Skills from Hands to Heads: Import of Technology and Export Performance
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Marzio Galeotti and Andrea Mattozzi
published in 2004 in Research Policy, vol. 33, pp. 879-895
138 – Inequality and Group Participation: Theory and Evidence from Rural Tanzania
Eliana La Ferrara
published in 2002 in Journal of Public Economics, vol. 85, 235-273
137 – Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets
Marzio Galeotti and Alessandro Lanza
published in 2005 in Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 20(11), pp. 1379-1388
136 – Neoclassical Growth, Manufacturing Agglomeration and Terms of Trade
Dieter M. Urban
published in 2007 in Review of International Economics, vol. 15, pp. 1014-1035
135 – Globalization, Peripherality and Regional Unemployment Divergence
Paolo Epifani
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134 – Patterns and Determinants of International Fragmentation of Production. Evidence from Outward Processing Trade between the EU and the Countries of Central-Eastern Europe
Salvatore Baldone, Fabio Sdogati and Lucia Tajoli
published in 2001 in Review of World Economics, vol. 137, pp. 80-104
133 – Foreign Direct Investment in the Banking Sector: A Transitional Economy Perspective
Luca Papi and Debora Revoltella
published in 2001 in “The Internazionalization of Financial Services: Issues and Lessons for Developing Countries”, WTO
132 – The District Goes Global: Export vs. FDI
Giorgio Basevi and Gianmarco I.P.Ottaviano
published in 2002 in Journal of Regional Science, vol. 42, pp. 107-126
131 – Wealth Constraints, Sharecropping Contracts and Transition to a Modern Sector
Eugenio Proto
published in 2007 in Journal of Development Economics, vol. 83(1), pp. 88-108
130 – Multinational Corporations, Wages and Employment: Do Adjustment Costs Matter?
Giovanni S. F. Bruno and Anna M. Falzoni
published in 2003 in Applied Economics, vol. 35, pp. 1277-1290
129 – Policy Issues in Market Based and Non Market Based Measures To Control the Volatility of Portfolio Investment
E.V.K. FitzGerald
published in 2005 in C.J. Green, C. Kirkpatrick and V Murinde (eds) “Finance and Development: Surveys of Theory, Evidence and Policy” Aldershot: Edward Elgar
128 – Technology Support for Small Industries in Developing Countries: From ´Supply Push´ to ´Eightfold-C´
Henny Romijn
published in 2001 in Oxford Development Studies, vol. 29, pp. 57-76
127 – Trade, Wages and ´Superstars’
Paolo Manasse and Alessandro Turrini
published in2001 in Journal of International Economics, vol. 54, pp. 97-117
126 – Italian Multinationals and De-localisation of Production
G. Barba Navaretti, Anna M. Falzoni and A. Turrini
125 – Inequality in Incomes and Access to Education. A Cross-Country Analysis (1960-95)
Daniele Checchi
published in 2003 in Labour, vol. 17, pp. 153-201
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124 – Global Capital Market Volatility and the Developing Countries: Lessons from the East Asian Crisis
Valpy FitzGerald
published in 1999 IDS Bulletin, vol. 30, pp. 19-32
123 – Emerging Entrepreneurship or Disguised Unemployment in Manufacturing? An Empirical Study of the Determinants of Self-Employment in Developing Countries
Carlo Pietrobelli and Roberta Rabellotti
published in 2004 in Journal of International Development, vol. 16, pp. 803-20
122 – Job Creation, Job Destruction and the International Division of Labour
M. Jansen and A. Turrini
published in 2004 in Review of International Economics, vol. 12, pp. 476-494
121 – Trade Integration with Europe, Export Diversification and Economic Growth in Egypt
Sebastien Dessus and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann
published in 1999 in “New Economic Developments and their Impact on Arab Economies”, Arab Planning Institute – Kuwait
120 – Importing Jobs and Exporting Firms? A Close Look at the Labor Market Implications of Italy´s Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Flows
Riccardo Faini, Anna M. Falzoni, Marzio Galeotti, Rodolfo Helg and Alessandro Turrini
published in 1999 in Giornale degli Economisti, vol. 57, pp. 95-135
119 – Evaluating the Factor-Content Approach to Measuring the Effect of Trade on Wage Inequality
Arvind Panagariya
published in 2000 in Journal of International Economics, vol. 50, pp. 91-116
118 – Technology Development in Transition. The Case of Hungarian Industry
Henny Romijn
117 – The Standard of Living in Latin America during the Twentieth Century
Pablo Astorga and Valpy FitzGerald
published in 2005 in Economic History Review, vol. 58, pp. 765-96
116 – Determinants of Attitudes towards Immigration: A Trade-Theoretic Approach
Sanoussi Bilal, Jean-Marie Grether and Jaime de Melo
published in 2003 in Review of International Economics, vol. 11, pp. 253-267
115 – Trade Unions and Regional Development
Riccardo Faini
published in 1999 in European Economic Review, vol. 43, pp. 457-474
114 – Diversity of Technological Opportunity, Localized Technological Change and Macroeconomic Growth
Andrea P. Bassanini
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113 – Migration, Dual Labour Markets and Social Welfare in a Small Open Economy
Tobias Muller
published in 2003 in Review of International Economics, vol. 11, pp. 130-143
112 – Coping with New Technologies in Emerging Asia
Sanjaya Lall
111 – Fostering in Sub-Saharan Africa. An Economic Perspective
Renata Serra
109 – Computable General Equilibrium Models, Adjustment and the Poor in Africa
Lorenzo de Maio, Frances Stewart and Rolph van der Hoeven
published in 1999 in World Development, vol. 27, pp. 453-470
108 – The Theory of Import Substitution
E.V.K. FitzGerald
107 – Liberalisation and Incentives for Labour Migration: Theory with Applications to NAFTA
James Markusen and Stephen Zahniser
published in 1999 in Jaime de Melo, Riccardo Faini and Klaus f. Zimmermann (eds.), “Trade and Factor Mobility”, London: Cambridge University Press, 263-294
106 – Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?
William J. Collins, Kevin H. O´Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson
published in 1999 “Migration: The Controversies and the Evidence”, edited by R. Faini, J. de Melo, and K. Zimmerman. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
105 – Human Capital Formation in an Open Economy with Increasing Wage Differentials
Alessandro Turrini
104 – Globalisation and Migratory Pressures from Developing Countries: A Simulation Analysis
Riccardo Faini, Jean-Marie Grether and Jaime de Melo
published in 1999 R. Faini, J. de Melo and K.F. Zimmerman eds., “Migration: The Controversies and the Evidence”, Cambridge University Press, pp.190-220
103 – Trade Liberalization and Factor Mobility: An Overview
Anthony J. Venables
published in 1999 in R. Faini, J. de Melo, and K. Zimmerman (eds.), “Migration: the controversies and the evidence”, CEPR/Cambridge