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Schivardi, Fabiano; Viviano, Eliana - Banca d'Italia - 2007

The 1998 reform of the Italian retail trade sector delegated to the regional governments the regulation of entry of large retail shops. We use the local variation in regulation to determine the effects of entry barriers on firm performance for a representative sample of medium and large retail...

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The retail trade sector and the food industry in Italy

Viviano, Eliana; Gigio, Luciana Aimone; Ciapanna, Emanuela - Banca d'Italia - 2012

In this collection of papers we first analyze the evolution of the Italian food industry and the retail trade sector during the past decade (Chapters 1 and 2). Chapter 3 describes the structure of large retailers and buying groups in Italy. Chapter 4 proposes alternative measures of the degree...

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Local economies and internationalization in Italy : papers presented at the conference held in Bologna, 20 November 2003 ; Univ. of Bologna, Faculty and Department of Statistics

2005

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Economie locali, modelli di agglomerazione e apertura internazionale : nuove ricerche della Banca d'Itali sullo sviluppo territoriale ; atti del convegno Bologna, 20 novembre 2003,...

2004

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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

market access therefore became a key determinant of industrial location, inducing fast growing new sectors (especially … engineering) to locate in regions with a large domestic market, i.e. in the North. From 1945 onwards trade growth and European … integration meant that foreign market access was the decisive factor; the North had the advantage of proximity to these markets. …

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Convergence among Italian Regions, 1861-2011

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

In 150 years, the trends in regional disparities in economic development within Italy have differed depending on whether they are gauged by longitude or by latitude. The disparities between western and eastern regions first widened and then closed; the North-South gap, by contrast, remains the...

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Research and Development, Regional Spillovers, and the Location of Economic Activities

Pozzolo, A.F. - Banca d'Italia - 1998

Many empirical studies have found both inter-industry and intra-industry externalities in the form of local knowledge spillovers in research. This paper makes some assumptions reflecting these empirical regularities in order to analyse their implications for the allocation of economic activities...

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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 … depends on both the relative size of its domestic market ('attraction') and its relative proximity to foreign markets … ('accessibility'). We show that the extended model predicts a home market effect only after the actual production and trade data have …

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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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