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Municipal fragmentation and economic performance of OECD TL2 regions
Bartolini, David - 2015
The present work investigates the relationship between municipal fragmentation and regional per capita GDP growth rate, using a panel of OECD TL2 regions in the period 1996-2011. According to the fiscal decentralisation literature, fragmentation should enhance growth as local government closer...
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Local secessions, homophily, and growth : a model with some evidence from the regions of Abruzzo and Molise (Italy, 1963)
Dalmazzo, Alberto; De Blasio, Guido; Poy, Samuele - 2017
This paper analyses the case of a local secession, i.e. the birth of a new local jurisdiction by separation from an existing one. We present a stylized model in which society is composed of heterogeneous groups and individuals have an homophily bias. The model predicts that: i) separations, such...
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Economic structure, technology diffusion and convergence : the case of the Italian regions
Lanzafame, Matteo (contributor) - 2005
Taking Italy as a case study, this paper investigates the link between economies' structural similarities and … Diffusion ; Regional Growth ; Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003156324
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Creative industries, new business formation and regional economic growth
Piergiovanni, Roberta; Carree, Martin Anthony; … - 2009
The present study explores the impact exerted by a series of factors and processes including creativity, IPR activities, new business formation and the provision of amenities on economic growth for 103 Italian provinces (NUTS 3) over the period between 2001 and 2006. Provincial growth rates are...
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Convergence among Italian Regions, 1861-2011
Iuzzolino, Giovanni - 2013
In 150 years, the trends in regional disparities in economic development within Italy have differed depending on … then closed; the North-South gap, by contrast, remains the main open problem in the national history of Italy. This work … between southern and northern Italy, powered by rising productivity and structural change in the South. The last turning point …
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Innovation, Socio-Institutional Conditions and Economic Growth in the Italian Regions
d'Agostino, Giorgio - 2013
This paper carries out an explanatory investigation into the relationship between social and institutional contextual factors and economic growth in the Italian regions. We construct a three-sector semi-endogenous growth model with negative externalities depending on social and institutional...
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Innovation, Structural Change and Productivity Growth : Evidence from Italian Regions, 1980-2003
Quatraro, Francesco - 2010
This paper develops a Schumpeterian approach to structural change, by grafting the role of business cycles and creative destruction into the growth retardation theory. The context of the empirical analysis is represented by the growth path of 20 Italian regions over the period 1981-2003, in the...
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Regional Growth with Spatial Dependence : A Case Study on Early Italian Industrialization
Ciccarelli, Carlo - 2016
The paper estimates a conditional ß-convergence model of labor productivity growth in Italy's manufacturing industry … explain much of the geographical variability of productivity growth in manufacturing in nineteenth-century Italy …
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Schooling, Production Structure and Growth : An Empirical Analysis on Italian Regions
Hirsch, Carina - 2010
different indicators of human capital. This finding is particularly important for Italy, as it has always had a model of …
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Early Development of Italian Railways and Industrial Growth : A Regional Analysis
Ciccarelli, Carlo; Magazzino, Cosimo; Marcucci, Edoardo - 2021
growth in Italy's regions. On the one hand, history represents one of the main factors conditioning transport systems, and … the other hand, Italy is characterized by considerable territorial heterogeneity, calling naturally for a regional …
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