Reasearch based on firm level data at the Centro Studi Luca dAgliano

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Reasearch based on firm level data at the Centro
Studi Luca dAgliano

• Bruegel-Cepr initiative
• Bruxelles, September 20, 2006

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Research projects 1

• The international firm
• Topic Features of the internationalization
  process at the firm level
• Modes of internationalization (export, imports,
  FDI, offshoring etc.)
• Characteristics of the internationalized firm
  (organization, technology, skills etc.)
• Services and institutions
• Team
• Several Italian research institute working mostly
  on Italian data
• French team (PSE)
• German team (DIW)
• Funding
• Grant from Italian Ministry of Research
• Italian corps (Capitalia Telecom) and chamber
  of commerce (Turin)

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Example of specific issues

• Effects of FDI to developing and developed
  countries (Italy vs France)
• Type of International activity and productivity
  threshold
• Family firms and access to the international
  market
• International activity and financial structure of
  the firm

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Research projects 2

• Mobility of firms and people (FDI and Migration)
• Topic Are migration and FDI (including
  offshoring) linked
• Theory
• Firm level (eg offshoring and hiring migrants)
• Cross country (networking effects, brain drain
  etc.)
• Team
• Based at LdA, mostly Italian
• Funding
• Banking foundations
• EU (Susdiv project with Feem and Cepr)
• ESF (Conference in Rome 16-18 Sept)

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Data Used

• Italian firm level data
• Capitalia rotating panel (5,000 firms..)
  manufacturing and now services large number of
  information, combined with firm level data (free)
  Possibility to include questions in new round
  (2007)
• Reprint data on inward and outward FDI combined
  with balance sheet data (pretending to cover the
  universe) gt access restricted
• Balance sheet data from commercial sources ( e.g.
  Aida, Amadeus etc.)
• Other firm level surveys (Banca dItalia, Isae
  etc.)
• Case studies
• Qualitative information on some Italian districts