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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298485703321

Autore

Fortis Marco

Titolo

Italy’s Top Products in World Trade : The Fortis-Corradini Index / / by Marco Fortis, Stefano Corradini, Monica Carminati

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-15817-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (95 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Business, , 2191-5482

Disciplina

330.945

Soggetti

Trade

Business

Commerce

International economic relations

International Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction -- 2 Italy’s competitiveness according to UNCTAD/WTO's Trade Performance Index -- 3 The Fortis-Corradini Index (FCI) – Fondazione Edison.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyzes Italy’s external competitiveness in detail and introduces a new index, devised by Marco Fortis and Stefano Corradini for Fondazione Edison, that highlights the strengths of Italy’s foreign trade. Compared with the Trade Performance Index compiled and updated annually by UNCTAD/WTO’s International Trade Centre, the Fortis-Corradini Index (FCI) provides greater sectorial detail by referring to 5117 products identified according to the six-digit HS 1996 international classification available on the UN Comtrade database. The new index confirms that, contrary to widespread opinion, Italy is one of the world’s most competitive countries, with an extraordinary position of leadership in world trade. Thus, according to the FCI, for 932 products Italy was either first, second or third worldwide in terms of foreign trade surplus in 2012. Furthermore, the FCI reveals, for example, that only three countries (China, Germany and the United States) surpassed Italy in 2012 in terms of the number of



first, second and third places in their trade balance worldwide. In presenting the FCI and meticulous statistical data, this highly original study will be of wide interest.