Almost five decades after the creation of institutional governments at the regional level in Italy and the transfer of policy responsibilities to the regional administrations, this paper focuses on the more recent policy experience of Emilia-Romagna, in particular, its 2015 “patto per il...

In this paper, we discuss the implications of the financial crisis for industrial policy. We show that despite official discourse, industrial policy has continued to exist during the liberal years of essentially the 1990s, in order to accompany important structural changes firms had to face. The...