Given the increasing share of the EU budget devoted to Regional Policy, several studies have tried to identify the policy’s contribution to regional economic growth. However, so far no consensus has been reached on the effectiveness of Cohesion policy, due to both limitations in data...

The author analyses the legacy of Luigi Spaventa as Italian Minister for the Budget. The author draws on personal reminiscences at the Ministry of Treasury, and focuses in particular on dualism in Italy's economic development and Spaventa's approach to the problem of the underdevelopment of the...

The paper stems from the end of a special program in Southern Italy (1993), viewing it as more than just an episode of institutional reform, but as the start of a process of changes in territorial development policy. How this process led to an overhaul of the tools at central and local level is...

This work provides an empirical analysis of the development of Italian provinces over the period 1952-1992, investigating the existence of convergence and/or divergence processes, identifying groups of provinces characterised by similar growth patterns and examining the role played by various...

In order to reduce CO2 emissions from a power plant, CO2 can be captured either from the syngas that is to be burned or from the flue gases exiting the energy conversion process. Postcombustion capture has the advantage that it can be applied to retrofit existing power plants. In this paper the...

In this paper the authors compare monoethanolamine (MEA) to aqueous ammonia (AA) and a solvent mixture of aqueous ammonia and ethanol (EAA) with respect to their post-combustion CO2 capture performance and their environmental impact. Simulation of all processes was carried out with Aspen Plus®...

D<sc>e</sc> C<sc>astris</sc> M. and P<sc>ellegrini</sc> G. Evaluation of spatial effects of capital subsidies in the South of Italy, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The spatial effects of capital subsidies are neglected in the literature even if several industrial policies have a strong spatial dimension. This study disentangles the...

The shortage of studies on spatial spillovers of industrial policies is rather surprising considering that such policies are usually designed for generating spatial externalities. In this paper we propose a new framework that partially relaxes the SUTVA and allows contrasting the positive...