The Italian Geography of Regional Resilience: The Role of Cooperative Firms

Costa, Michele; Delbono, Flavio

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3951889

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“…Indeed, since both the ability to absorb (resistance) and to bounce back (recovery) are desirable features of territorial systems, a large cooperative presence might provide a comparative advantage to promote prosperity and protect it during and/or after downturns. (We investigate the role of cooperative companies regarding the resilience of Italian regional systems in Costa & Delbono, 2021).…”

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Cooperative movement and widespread prosperity across Italian regions

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2022

Ann Public Coop Econ

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Our goal is to participate in the debate on regional well‐being. To this end, we explore the relationship between prosperity and the cooperative movement at the regional level in Italy between 2010 and 2019. We summarize prosperity through an index originally proposed by Amartya Sen and we apply it to classify Italian regions. We then perform panel analyses showing that there is a positive and significant association between such an index and the cooperative presence. We detect that, and explain why, the cooperative movement contributes to the regional prosperity more through its employment than in terms of the added value it generates.

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