By applying the smile curve concept to regional value added growth rather than to levels, the paper claims that local value-added growth increases when a region is specialised in scarce natural resources or scarce human skills within a GVC. Under these circumstances, in fact, the region can...

This paper develops a theoretical model for the conceptualization and empirical analysis of regional economic resilience. Our production function framework is applied to empirically assess the effect of pre-crisis conditions on regional resilience accounting for exogenous changes in technology...

The paper investigates the effects of internal migration on green growth in Italian regions. We use employment in "sustainable" sectors to measure green growth, resorting to a novel measure based on the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities. Using data from 103 Italian regions (NUTS3) from 2008...

This study explores the diversification of high-quality technologies within Chinese cities from 2000 to 2015. Our results reveal that both high-quality and low-quality technological portfolios contribute to high-quality technological diversification. High-quality portfolios dominate this process...