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North-south disparities, complementarity and competition within Italy

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  • Sandy Dall'erba
  • Marco Percoco

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The aim of this paper is to uncover how the patterns of competition and complementarity in the regional system of Italy can explain its persistent internal disparities in spite of cohesion efforts by the European Commission. Our analysis is based on the application of the Dendrinos-Sonis model (1988, 1990) to the Gross Regional Product of the NUTS I regions of Italy over 1951-1993. Essentially, the analysis implies that relative growth in regional income is similar to a zero-sum game in which relative growth in one region takes place at the expense of at least one another. The results show the strong influence of Lombardia on all the regions, and the dominance of complementary relationships over competitive relationships. When the application is extended to industry, non-market services and market services, the nature of the relationships that are revealed raises interesting issues for policies supporting these sectors.

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  • Sandy Dall'erba & Marco Percoco, 2003. "North-south disparities, complementarity and competition within Italy," SCIENZE REGIONALI, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2003(2).
    • Handle: RePEc:fan:scresc:v:html10.3280/scre2003-002002
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    1. Tausch, Arno, 2008. "308 Billion Euros into the Sand? The Debacle of the EU's Regional Policy [308 Milliarden Euro in den Sand? Zum Debakel der EU-Regionalpolitik]," MPRA Paper 10609, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Giuseppe Di Giacomo & Fabio Mazzola, 2011. "Fiscal federalism, regional public investment and spatial interaction processes: the case of Italy," ERSA conference papers ersa10p637, European Regional Science Association.
    3. Tausch, Arno, 2009. "Ist die Globalisierung fit für das soziale Europa? [Is Globalization fit for Social Europe?]," MPRA Paper 14264, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Paolo Postiglione & Geoffrey Hewings, 2008. "Hierarchical spatial interaction among the Italian regions: a nonlinear relative dynamics approach," Journal of Geographical Systems, Springer, vol. 10(4), pages 369-382, December.

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