I examine the post-war economic development of two regions in southern Italy exposed to mafia activity after the 1970s …

The two recessions that have hit Italy since the end of 2008 have raised the share of non-performing loans to …

We empirically investigate the role of civic capital (proxied by voter turnout) in Italy's economic development in the …

In 150 years, the trends in regional disparities in economic development within Italy have differed depending on … then closed; the North-South gap, by contrast, remains the main open problem in the national history of Italy. This work … between southern and northern Italy, powered by rising productivity and structural change in the South. The last turning point …

In post-Unification Italy industrialization was ever sharply sub-regional. Initially industry was largely artisanal …