We investigate what amount of risk sharing European countries entering a monetary union can hope to achieve by looking at the regions of Italy and the UK: two countries with very different financial systems and policy regimes. More precisely, we measure the contribution to risk sharing stemming...

This paper analyses the growth in height and its regional variability in Spain and Italy between the generational cohorts of 1850 and 1980. Using male height data drawn from the military enlistment records of the period between 1870 and 2000, this paper explores inequality and regional...

Resilience is a physical, engineering and ecological concept. Recently it has attracted attention from regional analyst and it could be a key aspect of the dynamic of spatial economic system (Reggiani et al., 2002), especially concerning how such system responds to shocks, disturbances, and...