This paper is concerned with employment growth at sectoral and local level in Italy. With respect to previous literature, we introduce across regions spatial spillovers and an explicit econometric dynamic set-up to analyse the behaviour of the model through time. We find that a province's...

The proponents of decentralization argue that it improves economic growth by increasing government efficiency and accountability. However, the critics argue that decentralization increases regional inequality by increasing the differences in institutional capacities and socio-economic endowments...

The objective of this study is to quantify the impact of public investment in space programs on the regional economic activity in the areas host to the program launch operations. I implement an econometric strategy that takes the timing of the Shuttle program retirement as a natural experiment...