5,915 rated or chosen profiles from 1,183 respondents, in up to 5 tasks of 1 profile varying on 7 attributes.

One of 3 tables from the same source; this one is the italy table. The others are listed under Related tables.

About this table

Description	Italian adults (Bilendi opt-in panel, April 2024) judged 5 hypothetical foreign acquisitions of a domestic company, varying the acquiring country, relative gains, reciprocity in openness, and the target's size, performance, technology and sector, and said whether the government should block each. 1,183 respondents who passed the attention screener.
Reference	Guidi, M., Moro, F. N., & Poletti, A. (2026). Geopolitics and opposition to foreign direct investment in the EU: Evidence from a conjoint experiment. Business and Politics.
DOI	10.1017/bap.2026.10027
Licence	CC0 1.0
Source data	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XJ5BUG

Notes

Conjoint table (irw_conjoint). choice: should the government block the acquisition (1 = block, 0 = not; paraphrase of the article; single profile per task, so not blocking is the outside option). Attribute order randomized per task, not recorded; levels stored as the article's English formulations (shown in Italian). Only screener-passing respondents deposited (1,183, matching the article); task order from row order.

These notes describe the source data, which the IRW reproduces as released. All notes are listed on the Data Notes page.

Size and shape

Respondents	1,183
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)	5,915
Tasks per respondent (most)	5
Profiles per task	1
Attributes	7
Tasks with no profile chosen	2,895

Design

Topic	international economy
A profile represents	scenario
Country	IT
Language shown	it
Language of stored levels	en
Randomization restrictions	unknown
Task order	inferred from row order
Profile position	recorded in the deposit

Task order or profile position was rebuilt from row order; analyses of position or task order should leave it out.

Outcomes:

choice	Should the government block the acquisition? (paraphrase) [choice, opt-out allowed]

Columns

attr_acquiring_countryattr_reciprocityattr_relative_gainsattr_target_performanceattr_target_sectorattr_target_sizeattr_target_technologychoicecov_anti_governmentcov_anti_tradecov_china_shockcov_degreecov_right_wingcov_workingidprofiletask

The layout (one row per respondent, task and profile; choice/rating outcomes; attr_ columns holding each attribute level as displayed) is defined in the IRW conjoint standard. What the outcomes asked is under Design above.

Get the data

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Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("guidi_2026_fdi_italy", source = "conj")

# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("guidi_2026_fdi_italy", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{Guidi_2026, title={Geopolitics and opposition to foreign direct investment in the EU: evidence from a conjoint experiment}, ISSN={1469-3569}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bap.2026.10027}, DOI={10.1017/bap.2026.10027}, journal={Business and Politics}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Guidi, Mattia and Moro, Francesco Niccolò and Poletti, Arlo}, year={2026}, month=Sept, pages={1–21} }

Version and provenance

IRW version	v584
Redivis dataset	irw_conjoint v4.2
Redivis dataset DOI	10.57761/qkye-q530
Manifest pin for this IRW version	v4.2
Metadata source	irw_meta v44.0