Regional Growth with Spatial Dependence: A Case Study on Early Italian Industrialization

Ciccarelli, Carlo; Fachin, Stefano

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“…This result contrasts in part with the evidence recently provided by Ciccarelli and Fachin, who found social capital to be an important determinant of regional growth ix -although to a lesser extent than human capital. 50 According to the evidence provided by the present article, the latter is found to be the most prominent factor of economic growth among the ones explored by Stefano Fenoaltea, in line with recent research on the relationship between human capital accumulation and regional inequality. This finding is reinforced by the positive association between the intensity of innovation capabilities concerned, the evidence is consistent with Felice's idea that social capital started to exert and ix It is also worth noting that Ciccarelli and Fachin include variables drawing on electoral franchise in their "social capital" calculations.…”

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The Missing Link? Trust, Cooperative Norms, and Industrial Growth in Italy

Cappelli¹

2016

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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Despite recent research about the link between social capital and economic growth, the degree to which social norms influenced the first phase of Italy’s regional economic divergence remains largely unexplored. A methodology based on a multifaceted definition of social capital, employing data about charity, mutual aid, and crime permits estimates of the differences in the strength of trust and cooperative norms across Italy’s provinces at ten-year intervals between 1871 and 1911. Further analysis of trust and cooperative norms via regression models of conditional convergence in industrial value added per capita shows that, although regional disparities in social capital were large during the late nineteenth century, they are not strongly correlated with industrial growth. Instead, the evidence indicates that human capital, innovation, and formal institutions were far more instrumental in determining the economic fortunes of Italy’s provinces before the World War I.

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The Missing Link? Trust, Cooperative Norms, and Industrial Growth in Italy

Cappelli¹

2016

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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“…18 The most interesting comparison of our results is with a number of empirical works that have been released in the recent years and that use a variety of formal models to tackle the issue of the determinants of industrial production and location in the pre-First World War period. The first one to be mentioned is Ciccarelli and Fachin (2017), in which productivity is explained by human and social capital, political participation and the building of infrastructures. The article finds that there is an absence of dynamic spill over effects, measured as the growth rate of industrial value added in neighbouring provinces.…”

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Market versus endowment: explaining early industrial location in Italy (1871–1911)

Missiaia

2018

Cliometrica

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This article aims to explain the location of the manufacturing industries in Italy in the period 1871-1911. The analytical framework takes into account of two competing theories on the determinants of the location of economic activity: the Heckscher-Ohlin (H-O) theory on factor endowments and the new economic geography (NEG) theory on access to markets. The methodology used here is based on Midelfart-Knarvik et al. (The location of European industry, European Economy Economic Papers 142. European Commission, 2000) and has seen several historical applications. The location of industries is explained through interactions between characteristics of the regions and characteristics of the sectors, of both H-O type and NEG type. The main finding is that endowments, and in particular energy and human capital, were the determinants of the geography of the first Italian industrialization. Market access, at this point of industrialization, mattered only in its domestic formulation and only through economies of scale.

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“…Here, domestic market potential from Missiaia ( 2016) is used as regressor but only at the regional and not the provincial level. Ciccarelli and Fachin (2017) explain industrial productivity between 1871 and 1911 by human and social capital, political participation, and the building of infrastructure. The absence of dynamic spillover effects, measured as the growth rate of industrial value added in neighbouring provinces, is seen as evidence that market access was not a driving force behind the first industrialization of Italy.…”

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An Economic History of Regional Industrialization

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Philips²,

Buyst³

2020

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This book offers a comprehensive study of regional industrialization in Europe and Asia from the early nineteenth century to the present. Using case studies on regional industrialization, the book provides insights into similarities and differences in industrialization processes between European, Eurasian, and Asian countries. Important factors include the transition from traditional to modern industrial production, industrial policy, agglomeration forces, market integration, and the determinants of industrial location over time. The book is an invaluable reference that attempts to bridge the fields of economic history, political history, economic geography, and economics while contributing to the debates on economic divergence between Europe and Asia as well as on the role of economic integration and globalization.

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Regional Growth with Spatial Dependence: A Case Study on Early Italian Industrialization

Cited by 12 publications

References 93 publications

The Missing Link? Trust, Cooperative Norms, and Industrial Growth in Italy

The Missing Link? Trust, Cooperative Norms, and Industrial Growth in Italy

Market versus endowment: explaining early industrial location in Italy (1871–1911)

An Economic History of Regional Industrialization

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