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Credit And Economic Development: Structural Differences Among The Italian Regions

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  • colantonio emiliano

    (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Economic-Quantitative Sciences)

  • mattoscio nicola

    (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Economic-Quantitative Sciences)

  • odoardi iacopo

    (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Economic-Quantitative Sciences)

  • perrucci antonella

    (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Economic-Quantitative Sciences)

Abstract

The international economic crisis of 2007 has had long-lasting negative effects on the financial markets and the real economy of many countries. The occurred uncertainty and the complications of the balance sheets of many banks, due to the strong international connections, particularly impacted on the ability and willingness of financial market, on granting credit to consumer households and companies. Credit, and the financial system in general, represent according to the economic literature, one of the determinants of economic development and, particularly, its efficiency determines the speed of growth and the potential level. The difficulties in the transmission of monetary policy and the structural inefficiency have worsened the negative effects of the economic crisis in many European countries, including Italy, where large differences in the socio-economic context of the various macro-areas still persist. The role of banks is to exploit tools and knowledge to the best addressing of funds, by subjects in excess to those in deficit, or towards who may exploit them for productive purposes. In addition, banks are locally a guidance to entrepreneurs and an entity aware of the local needs and potentials. In this paper we combine several variables on the credit and the quality of banking contracts, in addition to real economic and R&D variables, with reference to the Italian regions. The aim is to identify structural differences among the Italian regions in terms of financial and economic development, and in addition to observe the discrepancy between the various macro areas, even considering the effects of the international financial crisis broken out in the U.S. in 2007. We consider data over sufficiently long periods before and after the advent of the crisis and the long subsequent period of economic recession. The detail of the analysis is regional, in order to have a sufficient number of contexts that are grouped into homogeneous groups, helping to clarify and explain the dynamics of the socioeconomic differences that still exist. We use a Multidimensional scaling analysis with the aim of exploring the relationship between credit and socioeconomic development in the different Italian areas, observing in particular the structural differences that could lead to a deeper distance of the wellbeing of the poorest regions in the South compared to that of North-central.

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  • colantonio emiliano & mattoscio nicola & odoardi iacopo & perrucci antonella, 2014. "Credit And Economic Development: Structural Differences Among The Italian Regions," Annals of Faculty of Economics, University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics, vol. 1(1), pages 500-509, July.
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    Keywords

    Credit; Economic growth; Economic development;
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    JEL classification:

    • E51 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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