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A quali imprese vanno i sussidi pubblici? evidenza dall?industria manifatturiera italiana

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  • Annamaria Nifo
  • Gaetano Vecchione

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La missione di un programma di incentivo alle imprese ? quella di selezionare i progetti caratterizzati da pi? alti rendimenti sociali attesi, che il settore privato non avrebbe intrapreso senza i sussidi pubblici. La nostra analisi su un campione di 4.230 imprese manifatturiere nel triennio 2005-2007 suggerisce che gli aiuti alle imprese in Italia non sempre sembrano seguire un preciso criterio di screening e di selezione dei progetti, in riferimento a specifici obiettivi prefissati. Nel dettaglio, l?impresa italiana sussidiata si segnala per essere relativamente pi? grande, pi? capitalizzata e pi? incline all?internazionalizzazione (in termini di attivit? produttive e commerciali). Localizzata prevalentemente nel Mezzogiorno, essa ? caratterizzata da minore produttivit? del capitale. La distribuzione delle agevolazioni sembra tendere nell?insieme a riprodurre l?assetto strutturale esistente del sistema produttivo nazionale, senza chiari orientamenti a favore di specifici settori produttivi o segmenti pi? produttivi e innovativi dell?industria italiana. Nel complesso, l?evidenza segnala quindi una limitata capacit? dell?intervento pubblico di premiare i progetti con i maggiori benefici economici complessivi, dal momento che i sussidi risultano di fatto confluire soprattutto verso imprese di maggiore dimensione e pi? capitalizzate.

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  • Annamaria Nifo & Gaetano Vecchione, 2015. "A quali imprese vanno i sussidi pubblici? evidenza dall?industria manifatturiera italiana," RIVISTA DI ECONOMIA E STATISTICA DEL TERRITORIO, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2015(3), pages 5-28.
    • Handle: RePEc:fan:restre:v:html10.3280/rest2015-003001
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    Keywords

    Sussidi pubblici; imprese; industria manifatturiera; screening rules; caratteristiche delle imprese;
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    JEL classification:

    • H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity

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