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Mapping local productivity advantages in Italy: industrial districts, cities or both?

Giacinto, Valter Di; Gomellini, Matteo; Micucci, Giacinto; … - Banca d'Italia - 2012

We compare the magnitude of local productivity advantages associated with two different spatial concentration patterns in Italy ï¿½ 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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Internal Geography and External Trade: regional disparities in Italy, 1861-2011

A'Hearn, Brian; Venables, Anthony J. - Banca d'Italia - 2011

This paper explores the interactions between external trade and regional disparities in the Italian economy since unification. It argues that the advantage of the North was initially based on natural advantage (in particular the endowment of water, intensive in silk production). From 1880...

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Convergence among Italian Regions, 1861-2011

Iuzzolino, Giovanni; Pellegrini, Guido; Viesti, Gianfranco - Banca d'Italia - 2011

". This was followed by the "failed new turn" during the interwar years: not only were the beginnings of convergence blocked …. The second turning point, in the twenty years after the World War, produced the first substantial, lasting convergence … was in the mid-1970s, when convergence was abruptly halted and a protracted period of immobility in the disparity began. …

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Testing the 'home market effect' in a multi-country world: A theory-based approach

Behrens, Kristian; Lamorgese, Andrea R.; Ottaviano, … - Banca d'Italia - 2005

We propose a theory-based approach to testing the presence of the 'home market effect' in a multi-country world. Our framework extends Krugman's (1980, Am. Econ. Rev. 70(5), 950-959) model, in which the appeal of a country as a production site depends on both the relative size of its domestic...

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Changes in transport and non transport costs: local vs. global impacts in a spatial network

Behrens, Kristian; Lamorgese, Andrea R.; Ottaviano, … - Banca d'Italia - 2007

We develop a multi-country Dixit-Stiglitz trade model and analyze how industry location and welfare respond to changes in: (i) transport frictions (e.g., infrastructure, transportation technology); and (ii) non-transport frictions (e.g., tariffs, standards and regulations). We show that changes...

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Misura e determinanti dellï¿½agglomerazione spaziale nei comparti industriali in Italia

Pagnini, Marcello - Banca d'Italia - 2002

This paper is concerned with spatial agglomeration across industrial sectors in Italy. Following the seminal article by Ellison and Glaeser, agglomeration indexes that simultaneously control for the effect of chance and size structure of industries are presented. In particular, I compute...

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Foreign direct investment and agglomeration: evidence from Italy

Bronzini, Raffaello - Banca d'Italia - 2004

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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Struttura dellï¿½offerta e divari territoriali nella filiera dellï¿½information and communication technologies in Italia

Iuzzolino, Giovanni - Banca d'Italia - 2001

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the size and the industrial and geographic distribution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in Italy. The discussion is organized into two sections. The first, based on OECD list of countries in "ICT Intensity Groups", show...

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Monetary Policy Impulses, Local Output and the Transmission Mechanism

Caruso, Massimo - Banca d'Italia - 2004

This paper evaluates the effects of unanticipated monetary policy shocks on Italian output on the basis of highly disaggregated data and a VAR methodology. The impact of unexpected changes in the money market interest rate on the pattern of industrial production - based on qualitative business...

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A new measure of local endowments of transport infrastructures

Messina, Giovanna - Banca d'Italia - 2007

The aim of this study is to develop a new method to measure local endowments of transport infrastructures. Starting from the analytical approach of the ï¿½new economic geographyï¿½, which emphasizes the role of spatial location in determining the growth performance of an economy, it is...

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