Estimating sourcing premia with Italian regional data

Valeria Gattai and Valentina Trovato

No 276, Working Papers from University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper explores the link between sourcing and performance for a representative sample of manufacturing firms located in Lombardy, the leading economic region in Italy. Survey estimation methods, applied to the authors’ original database, reveal that there exist some performance premia for firms engaged in foreign, rather than domestic and in- rather than out- sourcing. This result is robust to different specifications, samples, performance measures and definitions of sourcing strategies.

Keywords: Sourcing; Premia; Regional data; Manufacturing industry; Italy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 F23 L23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56
Date: 2014-06, Revised 2014-06
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