Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Onorio Clauser Author-Name: Giuseppe Folloni Title: Patti territoriali e investimenti privati e pubblici: l'esperienza della provincia autonoma di Trento Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:5-30 Volume: 2007/1 Year: 2007 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=31742&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:restre:v:html10.3280/Rest2007-001001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Federica Ancona Author-Name: Alessia Spairani Author-Name: Antonio Dal Bianco Title: Le imprese distrettuali in Lombardia Abstract: Le imprese distrettuali in Lombardia (by Federica Ancona, Antonio Dal Bianco, Alessia Spairani) - ABSTRACT: Objectives Regional economists have been studying the industrial districts for several decades, because of their surprising performance in terms of innovation and growth. In recent years, important changes are taking place, like internationalization and groupification. Rivista di Economia e Statistica del Territorio, n. 1, 2007 This paper, taking into consideration these new phenomena affecting the economic system and particularly the districts, aims at analysing the actual features of the district firms, wondering if there are still significant differences between these firms and the extra-district firms, or not. Methods and Results The empirical analysis, consisting of descriptive statistics and a Tobit model, is run on a sample of 1200 manufacturing firms settled in Lombardy, with the aim of highlighting the differences between district and non-district firms with regard to some key variables (i.e. commercial and productive internationalisation, groupification). Conclusions The competitive advantage of districts seems to survive only with regard to commercial internationalisation. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:31-58 Volume: 2007/1 Year: 2007 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=31743&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:restre:v:html10.3280/Rest2007-001002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Cirilli Author-Name: Paolo Veneri Title: Le citt? nello sviluppo economico dell'Emilia Romagna Abstract: Le citt? nello sviluppo economico dell'Emilia Romagna (by Andrea Cirilli, Paolo Veneri) - ABSTRACT: Objectives Emilia Romagna is one of the largest and richest regions in Italy. Its development model and its spatial organization have raised much interest in the scientific as well as in the political debate. This region, in particular, shows a very clear-cut urban polycentrism, with most of the major cities being located along Via Emilia. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relation between urban and regional development in Emilia Romagna, in order to assess the role that each city has played in the long-run economic trajectory of this region. Methods and Results To gain a better understanding of the relation existing between urban and regional development, the long-run trajectories of the region?s major urban systems have been analysed comparatively, following a local development economics approach. The underlying idea in this paper is that regional development results from the sum of the local systems? economic performances. In this perspective, the analysis has highlighted two stylized facts: firstly, a small number of relevant urban systems explain the bulk of the regional population and employment dynamics over the last five decades (1951-2001). Secondly, these urban systems have made different contributions to the region?s development. The comparative analysis, indeed, shows that these cities have followed different trajectories in the long-run, despite a common cultural and institutional background. Such differences in performance should be interpreted in the light of the structural heterogeneity among Emilia Romagna?s cities, as pointed out in this paper. It seems to be the case that the initial conditions of the urban systems have played a significant role in determining their long-run trajectories, through path-dependence mechanisms. The analysis is carried out using descriptive statistics that have been calculated on Italian Census data. The units of analysis are the 13 largest cities conceptualized as functional urban systems in the Emilia Romagna region in terms of population and employment levels in 2001. Conclusions The city performances within Emilia Romagna?s territory differ widely. Thus, more contributions should be made to explain why cities are characterized by heterogeneous structures and have reached different growth rates, despite a relatively homogenous territorial background. Given their heterogeneity and their importance in the regional economy, the urban systems of Emilia Romagna should become preferential units of analysis both for the researcher and the policy-maker. Policy-makers, in particular, should recognise the crucial role that such cities may play in the regional economic process and hence devise policies specifically tailored to them. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:59-95 Volume: 2007/1 Year: 2007 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=31744&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:restre:v:html10.3280/Rest2007-001003 Number: 3 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Antonio Corvino Author-Name: Ernesto Somma Title: Indicatori sintetici ed aree geografiche sub-nazionali: un'applicazione all'economia italiana Abstract: Indicatori sintetici ed aree geografiche sub-nazionali: un'applicazione all'economia italiana (by Antonio Corvino, Ernesto Somma) - ABSTRACT: Objectives The use of synthetic indicators for the reading and interpretation of phenomena of economic character has assumed during the time an increasing importance. These indicators, built on the base of a specific methodology planned at the end of the thirties by National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and obtained from the aggregation of more series contained in the qualitative surveys carried out among the economic operators (consumers and entrepreneurs), are applied to the whole national territory. Methods and Results Starting from this consideration, the survey in object intends to elaborate a series of synthetic indicators concerning the manufacturing compartment and the ICT inside specific territorial areas of Italian economy (the four main geographical divisions: North West, North East, Center, Midday and the Nineteen Regions). These indicators have been elaborated combining more qualitative series contained in an annual survey developed in the first half of the year 2005 by the Regional Observatory Bankenterprises of Economy and Finance in collaboration with the Office of the Productive Activities, the IPI and the Institute G.Tagliacarne within the anticipated activities for the Observatory of the Industrial Activities constituted with D.M. of May 5th, 2004. Such indicators allow: to compare the different performances of the enterprises inside the various territorial areas; to compile a classification of the regions; to analyze for three selected regions (Liguria, Sicily, Umbria), according to their positioning within the quoted classification, the behavior of separate macro-sectors. Conclusions In the conclusions, the survey puts in evidence both the principals merits and the limits of the adopted methodological approach and it underlines the necessity, for a more articulated and complete reading of the territory, to use jointly the synthetic indicators and other variables of quantitative and qualitative character. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:97-117 Volume: 2007/1 Year: 2007 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=31745&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:restre:v:html10.3280/Rest2007-001004 Number: 4 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giovanni Barbieri Title: Territorio e sviluppo locale nel Rapporto annuale dell'ISTAT Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:119-124 Volume: 2007/1 Year: 2007 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=31746&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:restre:v:html10.3280/Rest2007-001005 Number: 5 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alessandro Rinaldi Title: La valutazione del patrimonio delle famiglie a livello territoriale Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:125-134 Volume: 2007/1 Year: 2007 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=31747&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:restre:v:html10.3280/Rest2007-001006 Number: 6