LEZs (Low Emission Zones),is a defined area in many cities where access by certain polluting vehicles is restricted or deterred with the aim of improving the air quality. In many LEZs local governments introduces road pricing schemes in order to reduce social and environmental negative...

Despite the fact that in 2011 Italy will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its political unification, geographical disparities stand out as a prominent characteristic of the country. The paper estimates the trend of the cost-of-living differentials across regions in the half-century after the...

In the present work we argue that in order to appraise the explanatory power of the existing explanations of dualism in the Italian economy it is important to examine their empirical predictions relatively to the territorial dispersion of some efficiency measures. Applying the non-parametric FDH...

The paper proposes a new geography of nested economic areas that shape the Italian economy. These economic areas, named economic regions and economic macro-regions, are an upper tier integration of Local Labour Systems (LLS) obtained using a Community Detection algorithm called INFOMAP. This...

The paper represents a first tentative analysis of the phenomenon of rural poverty in in the European Union's regions. In the first part, the paper discusses the problem of defining rural areas and examines the indicators used for international comparisons, notably the OECD definition, which...

This paper compares the evolution of trade specialisation, by technological content, of Emilia-Romagna, Lombardia, Marche, Veneto and the Italian average over 1992-2002. It is shown that, over the period, the four regions� export performance has been negatively affected by the stationarity...

Italian Abstract: Lo scopo di questo lavoro è presentare una panoramica dei risultati di un recente progetto di ricerca della Banca d'Italia. Il lavoro inizia discutendo come il sistema urbano italiano sia stato, in passato, plasmato dall'interazione tra geografia e eventi storici. Più...

Italian Abstract: Le istituzioni non profit rappresentano il settore produttivo che è cresciuto di più nell'ultimo decennio intercensuario (28% tra il 2001 e il 2011 rispetto al 8,4% delle imprese e al -21,8% delle istituzioni pubbliche), in particolare sono più di 14 mila le istituzioni nate...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro esamina i divari territoriali nelle competenze degli studenti italiani e le possibili determinanti a livello individuale, familiare, scolastico e locale. L’analisi è condotta sui microdati delle Rilevazioni Nazionali INVALSI relativi al periodo prima della pandemia...