Regional resilience in Italy: a very long-run analysis

Roberto Cellini; Gianpiero Torrisi

doi:10.1080/00343404.2013.861058

Regional resilience in Italy: a very long-run analysis

Roberto Cellini, Gianpiero Torrisi

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Abstract

Resilience is a concept referring to the manner in which systems react to, and recover from, shocks. According to several recent analyses ‘resilience’ can explain different regional economic performances. However, this study indicates that this explanation is quite unconvincing when applied to the Italian regions in the very long run (1890–2009). Only few shocks emerge to have specific impact effects differing across regions, while the recovery experience is ever spatially homogeneous. Hence, it is difficult to discern genuine differences in regional resilience. This evidence can be interpreted as a reason why the regional differences in Italy are huge and persistent.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1779-1796
Journal	Regional Studies
Volume	48
Issue number	11
Early online date	10 Jan 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2013.861058
Publication status	Published - 10 Jan 2014

Keywords

Regional growth
Economic resilience
Shock impact
Recovery

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