Electricity and the Geography of Industrial Development in a Latecomer Country: Preliminary Evidence on Italy, 1901-1911
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Keywords
Electrification; industry location; Italian manufacturing; market potential; factor endowments; Liberal Italy.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N73 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- N93 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
- R30 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2025-01-20 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-GEO-2025-01-20 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-HIS-2025-01-20 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-MAC-2025-01-20 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-URE-2025-01-20 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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