Esportazioni e successo delle imprese:il caso Italiano

Exports and Success in Italian Manufacturing . EconLit Classification : F100, D210, 0310 Keywords: Export-led Growth, Firm Behaviour , Productivity Growth The paper sets out to verify whether the Italian export firms have increased their productivity more than the non-exporting ones. The analysis focused on the manufacturing sector . According to the available literature, there is an increase in productivity ,but it takes place before firms enter the foreign markets . On the other hand, there is no significant probability , although they are characterized by a greater dynamism in employment and sales. This article demonstrates that from 1989 to 1994 Italian exporting firms increased their productivity more than the firms operating on the home market , but this was a temporary results helped by depreciation of the lira, fuelling the growth of the export firms.