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Labor market pooling: evidence from Italian industrial districts

Blasio, Guido De; Addario, Sabrina Di - Banca d'Italia - 2002

The paper provides an empirical investigation of labor market pooling. The analysis concentrates on Italian industrial districts and shows that there is fragmentary evidence of a widespread wage premium. In particular, there is no evidence of district differentials for the returns to seniority...

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Agglomeration within and between regions: Two econometric based indicators

Giacinto, Valter Di; Pagnini, Marcello - Banca d'Italia - 2008

We propose two indexes to measure the agglomeration forces acting within and between different regions. Unlike the … existing measures of agglomeration, our model-based indexes allow for simultaneous treatment of both aspects. Local plant … parameters is dealt with, including the problem of data censoring. The statistical properties of standard agglomeration indexes …

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Openess to trade and industry cost dispersion: Evidence from a panel of Italian firms

Gatto, Massimo Del; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Pagnini, … - Banca d'Italia - 2007

We use Italian firm-level data to investigate the impact of trade openness on the distribution of firms across marginal cost levels. In so doing, we implement a procedure that allows us to control not only for the standard transmission bias identified in firm-level TFP regressions but also for...

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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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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 agglomeration across 100 industrial manufacturing sectors in Italy in 1996 …

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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 … multinational investment is still unanswered. This paper provides empirical evidence of the role of agglomeration economies in …

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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

agglomeration externalities. …

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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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