Italy

Italy, 28 June 2021

Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher’s Blog on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade

In this blog, I focus each time on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade in a certain country or territory in terms of how Location Factors (Political, Economic, Technological, Ecological, Legal, and Cultural) and Entry Modes (e.g. M&As, Export, and Greenfield) impact the attractiveness - or vice versa - the risks of FDI and International Trade in the specific country or territory.

Italy – Foreign Direct Investment and International Trade

Key Figures

Capital: Rome

Population: 60,302,093

Main Religion: Christianity

GDP per capita, PPP: $44,395.1

Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$): $31,192,029.03 (Thousands)

Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$): $32,658,306.27 (Thousands)

Exports of goods and services (current US$): $631,203,835.92 (Thousands)

Imports of goods and services (current US$): 570,066,198.41 (Thousands)

Source: 2019, World Bank

Information and Data on FDI and International Trade

Foreign investment in Italy - Santandertrade.com

Foreign trade figures of Italy - Economic and Political Overview - Lloyds Bank International Trade Portal (lloydsbanktrade.com)

Italy - United States Department of State

Macro Data

Italy | Data (worldbank.org)

Italy and the IMF

General Information and Political Information

Italy - The World Factbook (cia.gov)

Italy country profile - BBC News

Research Papers and Research Books

Project MUSE - How the Populists Won in Italy (jhu.edu)

FDI spillovers on firm survival in Italy: absorptive capacity matters! | SpringerLink

Inward FDI and Local Institutional Building: Evidence from the Financial Sector in Italy - Kluwer Law Online

Firm Employment Resilience and FDI: Evidence from Italy

Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Complexity: Key Elements for a Targeted Industrial Policy in Italy (repec.org)

CO2 emissions, non-renewable and renewable electricity production, economic growth, and international trade in Italy - ScienceDirect

Restructuring of the international clothing and textile trade network: the role of Italy and Portugal | Journal of Economic Structures | Full Text (springeropen.com)

Trade Unions and Employment Relations in Italy during the Economic Crisis: South European Society and Politics: Vol 23, No 1 (tandfonline.com)

The impact of air transportation on trade flows: A natural experiment on causality applied to Italy - ScienceDirect

Trade union strategy in fashion retail in Italy and the USA: Converging divergence between institutions and mobilization? - Stefano Gasparri, Peter Ikeler, Giovanna Fullin, 2019 (sagepub.com)

U.S. – Italy commodity trade and the J-curve: new evidence from asymmetry analysis | SpringerLink

‘New trade union strategies for new forms of employment’: Focus on Italy - Elena Gramano, Giovanni Gaudio, 2019 (sagepub.com)

Measuring patterns of specialization using trade in value added: the case of manufacturing in Italy: Applied Economics Letters: Vol 25, No 21 (tandfonline.com)

Sustainability | Free Full-Text | Efficiency, Conflicting Goals and Trade-Offs: A Nonparametric Analysis of the Water and Wastewater Service Industry in Italy (mdpi.com)

Populism and trade union internationalism: the case of Italy - Salvo Leonardi, Mimmo Carrieri, 2020 (sagepub.com)

Production and Trade of Honey in Selected European Countries: Serbia, Romania and Italy

The Financial Consequences of Export-led Growth in Germany and Italy: German Politics: Vol 0, No 0 (tandfonline.com)

How network managers influence the export intensity: evidence from Italy | Emerald Insight

Price and non-price competitiveness in export demand: empirical evidence from Italy | SpringerLink

Judicial Self-Government in Italy: Merits, Limits and the Reality of an Export Model | German Law Journal | Cambridge Core

Heterogeneous firms, corporate taxes and export behavior: A firm-level investigation for Italy - ScienceDirect

Low-wage import competition and populist backlash: The case of Italy - ScienceDirect

A comprehensive ex-post assessment of RES deployment in Italy: Jobs, value added and import leakages - ScienceDirect

Sustainability | Free Full-Text | Assessing the Net Import Welfare Impacts of the Rising Global Price of Food in Italy (mdpi.com)

Are mergers among cooperative banks worth a dime? Evidence on efficiency effects of M&As in Italy - ScienceDirect

Historical “ghost” towns: Sustainable conservation issues in Southern Italy | Taylor & Francis Group (taylorfrancis.com)

Local Site Effects and Incremental Damage of Buildings during the 2016 Central Italy Earthquake Sequence - 2018 (sagepub.com)

Remarks on damage and response of school buildings after the Central Italy earthquake sequence | SpringerLink

Public Policy and Politics via Documentaries and in-Depth TV NewsPrograms

Documentaries and in-Depth TV News programs usually reflect a certain viewpoint.ZRB

Italy tackles rural exodus | DW Documentary - YouTube

Saving kids from the Mafia in Italy | DW Documentary - YouTube

Why is Italy swinging to the far right? - BBC News - YouTube

Video: Is Italy seeing a resurgence of fascism? - YouTube

History and Important History Events

The Origins Of Mussolini's Italy | Secrets Of War | Timeline - YouTube

The Renaissance - the Age of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci (1/2) | DW Documentary - YouTube

Other Issues

Vatican protests against 'unprecedented' Italian bill on homophobia - BBC News

Real‐Time Earthquake Early Warning With Deep Learning: Application to the 2016 M 6.0 Central Apennines, Italy Earthquake - Zhang - 2021 - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library