Is Regional Growth in Italy Endogenous?

Crime and regional growth in Italy

Building on standard growth-theory models, this paper provides an empirical investigation of the effects of crime on regional economic performance in Italy, as measured by labour productivity growth. Our analysis relies on a panel of annual data on the Italian regions and, contrary to previous studies in the field, adopts a flexible and efficient panel estimation approach which controls for par...

Endogenous regional growth: a critical survey

This paper provides a critical survey of the now burgeoning literature on the spatial application of endogenous growth theory. Attention is paid both to the (mainly North American) "new economics of urban and regional growth" literature, and to European literature that has focused on questions of convergence and the estimation of the Verdoorn law. The paper then identifies potentially fruitful ...

integrated regional endogenous development framework in iran

researches in exploring of driving forces of regional endogenous development, concentrate on subjects which have been so controversial. regional endogenous development (red), together with other core regional development concepts, is usually focused on the sub-national regional development process of the home country. this paper attempts to conceptualize and examine regional endogenous developm...

Endogenous Growth Theory and Regional Development: a 'new' Modeling Approach

Introduction 1.1 There has been a flowering of theoretical literature in “ new” or endogenous growth theory in the last decade, primarily motivated by the divergent growth experiences of different countries, which the neoclassical growth theory of the Solow (1956)-Swan (1956) genre is incapable of addressing. The path-breaking works of Romer (1986, 1990), Lucas (1988), Prescott and Boyd (1987),...

Endogenous growth promotors and inhibitors in tahiti lime