Language as a regional driver of the trade of place-sensitive products: The case of made-in-Italy goods

Amir Maghssudipour, Annalisa Caloffi, Marco Bellandi and Letizia Donati

Working Papers - Economics from Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa

Abstract: We investigate the relationship between language and international trade of place-sensitive products at a regional level. Focusing on ‘made in Italy’, we assess whether its trade is influenced by Italian migrants and organisations offering Italian language courses in the importing region. To analyse this relationship, we collected an original database of 147 regions, on which we estimated Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood regressions, also controlling for various country effects across trading regions. Results show that the trade of made-in-Italy goods is positively associated with the diffusion of the Italian language in the regions. This does not apply to goods produced in Italy that are not characteristic of ‘made in Italy’.

Keywords: international trade; place-sensitive products; made in Italy; Italian migration; Italian language (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 R10 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2022
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