Railways and manufacturing productivity in Italy after unification

Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto

doi:10.1111/jors.12484

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“…They find modest average effects, which are however considerably higher for northern regions. A similar analysis, but at the province level, is conducted by Pontarollo and Ricciuti (2020), who find a more homogenous positive effect of the railways.…”

Section: Railways and The Patterns Of Economic Activitymentioning

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Pork, Infrastructure and Growth: Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion

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This paper studies the role played by politics in shaping the Italian railway network, and its impact on long-run growth patterns. Examining a large state-planned railway expansion that took place during the second half of the 19th century in a recently unified country, we first study how both national and local political processes shaped the planned railway construction. Exploiting close elections, we show that a state-funded railway line is more likely to be planned for construction where the local representative is aligned with the government. Furthermore, the actual path followed by the railways was shaped by local pork-barreling, with towns supporting winning candidates more likely to see a railway crossing their territory. Finally, we explore the long-run effects of the network expansion on economic development. Employing population and economic censuses for the entire 20th century, we show that politics at a critical juncture played a key role in explaining the long-run evolution of local economies.

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Section: Railways and The Patterns Of Economic Activitymentioning

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Pork, Infrastructure and Growth: Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion

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“…Transportation linkages have an adverse effect on health in the rural US (Zimran, 2019). Railroads manage to boost manufacturing productivity in US (Hornbeck and Rotemberg, 2019;Pontarollo and Ricciuti, 2020). Improvements in transport and communications technologies boost the employment in interactive occupations (Michaels et al, 2019).…”

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Railways and Roadways to Trust

2022

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“…The study results showed that HSR has a positive influence on firm productivity. Thus, HSR can promote regional economic growth by improving the economic efficiency of enterprises (Pontarollo and Ricciuti, 2020). Second, the continuous improvement of HSR will break the market segmentation between cities (Vickerman, 2018).…”

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Can High-Speed Rail Help Achieve Urban Green Development? From a Spatial Perspective

Liu

Zhang²

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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As a convenient means of transportation, high-speed rail (HSR) plays an important role in green development. In the context of the rapid development of China’s HSR, this study selects the SBM-DDF-SML model to construct the green total factor productivity (GTFP) index to measure urban green development; moreover, it empirically tests the impact of the opening of the HSR on GTFP using the spatial difference-in-differences (SDID) model. The results show that the opening of the HSR could significantly promote GTFP for HSR-served cities. In addition, the opening of HSR has a positive effect on the GTFP for neighboring HSR-served cities but a negative impact on that for neighboring non-HSR-served cities. The mechanism test shows that HSR can influence GTFP by promoting urban green innovation and entrepreneurial vitality. This study is a supplement to the research on the impact of HSR on the GTFP, in order to provide corresponding policy advice. The government should optimize the layout of HSR and help cities achieve green and sustainable development.

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Railways and manufacturing productivity in Italy after unification

Cited by 7 publications

References 51 publications

Pork, Infrastructure and Growth: Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion

Pork, Infrastructure and Growth: Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion

Railways and Roadways to Trust

Can High-Speed Rail Help Achieve Urban Green Development? From a Spatial Perspective

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