Firms' International Status and Heterogeneity in Performance: Evidence from Italy

Lorenzo Casaburi (), Valeria Gattai and Gaetano Alfredo Minerva
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Lorenzo Casaburi: University of Bologna

Rivista di Politica Economica, 2007, vol. 97, issue 3, 151-188

Abstract: We revisit the evidence about firms' performance and their international status in a large sample of Italian enterprises. Three results stand out. First, firms engaging in foreign production of final goods, in addition to export activities, are more productivethan firms that only export abroad. Second, firms engaging in final goods off-shoring are more productive than firms engaging ininputs off-shoring. Third, the productivity dynamics of exporters is not any better than non-exporters’ one. Our results support that the better performance of globally engaged firms is chiefly due to the selection caused by the fixed costs associated to internationaloperations.

JEL-codes: F10 F20 L10 L20 L60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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