[BOOK][B] Local and regional development

A Pike, A Rodríguez-Pose, J Tomaney - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and
well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an …

Stochastic multi-attribute acceptability analysis (SMAA): an application to the ranking of Italian regions

S Greco, A Ishizaka, B Matarazzo, G Torrisi - Regional studies, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
We consider the issue of ranking regions with respect to a range of economic and social
variables. Departing from the current practice of aggregating different dimensions via a …

Regional innovation disparities in Italy: The role of governance

J Peiró-Palomino, F Perugini - Economic Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
abstract This paper analyses the link between institutional quality and innovation for 103
Italian NUTS-3 provinces during the 2004–2012 period, providing fresh evidence for a …

Trust as a catalyst for regional growth in a decentralized Europe: The interplay between informal and formal institutions in driving economic growth

J Muringani - Journal of Regional Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Empirical studies examining the interplay between informal and formal institutions on
economic growth are scarce. As a result, we do not know how differences in trust affect the …

State rescaling and economic convergence

V Mykhnenko, M Wolff - Regional Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper critically engages with State/Space theory by interrogating the soundness of its
fundamental assumptions regarding the rescaling of capitalism and by questioning the …

An Empirical Investigation of the “Mezzogiorno Trap” in China's Agricultural Economy: Insights from Data Envelopment Analysis (2015–2021)

X Li, P Yang, Y Zou - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Reducing regional inequality is one of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) established by the United Nations. However, a persistent regional disparity known …

The 'postcode lottery'of the Italian public health bill analysed with the hierarchy Stochastic Multiobjective Acceptability Analysis

D De Matteis, A Ishizaka, G Resce - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the last two decades, due to strong decentralization and widespread budget
constraints, the Italian co-payment for health care has become a way to finance public …

[HTML][HTML] The contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality: A counterfactual analysis for OECD countries

L Ayala, J Martín‐Román, J Vicente - Papers in Regional Science, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper provides recent evidence on the contribution of the spatial dimension to
inequality and more specifically accounts for the impact of the changes in the territorial …

Fiscal decentralization, regional disparity, and the role of corruption

N Nirola, S Sahu, A Choudhury - The Annals of Regional Science, 2022 - Springer
In this study, we examine how efforts taken by states to combat corruption act as a mediator
in the relationship between fiscal decentralization and regional income disparities. Fiscal …

Asymmetric decentralization: some insights for the Italian case

L Grazzini, P Lattarulo, M Macchi, A Petretto - Politica economica, 2020 - rivisteweb.it
The aim of this paper is to analyze the requests of asymmetric decentralization that have
been recently proposed in Italy by Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna in light of the tiny …