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This paper provides a detailed insight into the magnitude of price-level differentials among Italian regions, supplementing the data collected by Istat with information on house prices and rentals collected by Agenzia del Territorio and by the Bank of Italy and with estimates from other sources....
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We compare the magnitude of local productivity advantages associated with two different spatial concentration patterns in Italy � urban areas and industrial districts. The former have high population density and host a wide range of economic activities, while the latter are marked by a high...
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A number of empirical studies have analyzed the effect of agglomeration on multinational investment, verifying whether the agglomerated areas attract foreign direct investment inflows. Despite the large number of papers, no systematic attempt has been made to disentangle whether FDI are...
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Two main hypotheses are usually put forward to explain the productivity advantages of larger cities: agglomeration economies and firm selection. Combes et al. (2012) propose an empirical approach to disentangle these two effects and fail to find any impact of selection on local productivity...
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urbanization externalities, a result similar to that obtained by more recent research on the Italian manufacturing sector and its …
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urbanization and/or industry localization. The main results indicate that both urbanization and industry localization raise job …
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We analyse empirically the effects of urbanization on Italian college graduates' work possibilities as entrepreneurs … to instrumenting urbanization. Provincial competition, urban amenities and disamenities, cost of labour, earning … of the negative urbanization penalty. Our result cannot be explained by the presence of negative differentials in returns …
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