Autori
Ferragina, Anna Maria
Boccia, Marinella
Iandolo, Stefano

Titolo
Follow the cloud! The impact of ICT on Italian provinces’ trade
Periodico
Economia e politica industriale
Anno: 2022 - Volume: 49 - Fascicolo: 4 - Pagina iniziale: 667 - Pagina finale: 690

This study investigates the role of digital capacities in the internationalisation processes of Italian provinces using a panel dataset built upon the territorial statistical database of ISTAT (Italian National Institute of Statistics) for the period 2014–2017. The purpose is to explore the link between three internationalisation indicators (export value, export intensity and export in most dynamics sectors) and two ICT drivers (use of e-business digital technologies, such as cloud computing, and use of social media) expected to enable frms to share information along the supply chain and to ease frms’ communication and fxed cost investment. To purge the analysis from unobserved determinants of export performance and ICT adoption reverse causation problems, the identifcation relies on an instrumental variables approach that addresses the endogeneity of our two variables of interest related to ICT. The results show a signifcant relationship between the ICT capacities related to cloud adoption and our export indicators confrming the role of e-business digital technologies in explaining the export performance of Italian provinces. The use of social media also appears weakly able to impact on the export performances indicators. These results are robust to our endogeneity checks.



SICI: 0391-2078(2022)49:4<667:FTCTIO>2.0.ZU;2-M

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