market wants, in Italy and other countries, too. But this paper contends that without the work of Becattini in tracing the …

to the literature on industrial districts, the results help understanding why Italy's FDI on GDP ratio is lower than in …

The political unification of Italy in 1861 led to the establishment of a single market, by removing the trade barriers … same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large infrastructure project to spread railways, which were largely confined in … Northern Italy, all over the country. Using tools from spatial econometrics, we find that railways played a positive effect on …

This paper explores the evolution of Italy's regional inequality in the long run, from around Unification (1871) until … our days (2011). To this scope, a unique and up-to-date dataset of GDP per capita, GDP per worker (productivity) and …, services – is here presented and discussed. Sigma and beta convergence are tested for GDP per capita, productivity and workers …

Italy up to the mid-seventies. Finally, we find that our TFP estimates are highly positively correlated with standard human …

The political unification of Italy in 1861 led to the establishment of a single market, by removing the trade barriers … same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large infrastructure project to spread railways, which were largely confined in … Northern Italy, all over the country. Using tools from spatial econometrics, we find that railways played a positive effect on …

, innovation, productivity and export performance augmented to take account for the role played by spatial agglomeration … links R&D capital to innovation output; the third focuses on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) as determined by innovation …

In this paper we estimate the long-run relationship between regional total factor productivity, R&D, human capital and …-run equilibrium between productivity level and the three kinds of capital; among them, human capital turns out to have the strongest … impact on productivity. Regional productivity is found also to be positively affected by R&D activity and public …