Abstract
Resilience is a concept derived from engineering and ecology relating to the way in which systems react to, and recover from, shocks. According to several recent analyses, different ‘resilience behaviours’ are able to explain differences in the economic performance of regions. This study shows that this explanation is not fully convincing when applied to the Italian regions, observed in the very long run. This analysis focuses on real per capita income levels over the period 1890-2009. Only few (major) shocks emerge to have a specific impact effect differing across the regions, while the recovery experiences never differ significantly across regions. This is accounted for by systematic and persistent differences in the economic performance of Italian regions; hence, it is difficult to discern genuine differences in regional resilience behaviour.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Portsmouth |
| Publisher | University of Portsmouth |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |