Emanuele Felice
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 293310 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Emanuele Felice |
| NOMBRES | Emanuele |
| APELLIDO | Felice |
| FIRMA | FELICE E |
| AFILIACIONES | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1928-140X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Diverging consequences of protectionism
We reconstruct agricultural production across Italian provinces from 1871 to 1911 and examine how protectionist tariffs differently impacted on economic growth. Using a difference-in-differences model, we find that tariffs' effects varied significantly following local agricultural institutions: in most of the North, tariffs fostered modernization and productivity growth; conversely, in the South tariffs, although benefitting landowners in the sho…
A tale of two Italies
This paper uses the ‘access orders’ paradigm developed by North, Wallis, and Weingast [(2009). Violence and social order: A conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press] to analyse the case of the Italian North–South economic divide. In line with their framework, we collect and discuss several social and political indicators over the long-run, at the regional level. Firstly we looked at data …
Rethinking the take-off
The Socio-Institutional Divide
The recent availability of more accurate estimates of regional gdp, of social indicators (human capital, life expectancy, the human development index [hdi], heights, inequality, and social capital), and of other indices (such as market potential) has helped to advance the study of the growth patterns within Italian regions from (approximately) unification to the present day. This up-to-date information provides the basis for a new explanation of …
State intervention and economic growth in Southern Italy
In the second half of the twentieth century, the Italian government carried out a massive regional policy in southern Italy, through the State-owned agency ‘Cassa per il Mezzogiorno’ (1950–1986). The article reconstructs the activities of this agency, making use of its yearly reports and of national and local archives. The Cassa was effective in the first two decades, thanks to substantial technical autonomy and, in the 1960s, to a strong focus o…
The Misty Grail
Recent decades have seen a flurry of new indicators to measure economic progress, but none of them has succeeded in replacing GDP. This article seeks to explain this outcome and to contribute to the debate about composite indicators versus a dashboard approach. To this end, it reviews some of the most popular alternatives to GDP (the Human Development Index, the Genuine Progress Indicator, the Happy Planet Index, and an environmentally corrected …
GDP and life expectancy in Italy and Spain over the long run
A growing body of literature focuses on the relationship between life expectancy and GDP per capita. However, available studies to date are overwhelmingly based on either cross-country or cross-sectional data. We address the issue from a novel, more histor
Italy’s Modern Economic Growth, 1861–2011
By making the most of a newly-available large set of historical statistics, the paper outlines the main features of Italy’s «modern economic growth» from Unification (1861) until the present day (2011). Alongside national GDP estimates, we also discuss regional disparities, living standards and inequality of personal income distribution. Over the long run, Italy successfully caught up with the most advanced economies, and did so in a virtuous man…
The changing relationship between inflation and the economic cycle in Italy
Italy's Growth and Decline, 1861-2011
The large body of new statistical data that became available after the 150th anniversary of Italy's unification permits a re-examination of Italy's economic growth. Up-to-date estimates and re-interpretations of Italy's gdp from 1861 to 2011-at both the national and regional levels-in the light of institutional and technological changes within an international context find that Italy's economic growth was substantial early in the twentieth centur…
Regional convergence in Italy, 1891–2001
When did modernization begin? Italy's industrial growth reconsidered in light of new value-added series, 1911–1951
Regional value added in Italy, 1891-2001, and the foundation of a long-term picture1
This article presents value added estimates for the Italian regions, in benchmark years 1891–1951, which are linked to those from official figures available from 1971 on, in order to offer a long-term picture of Italy's regional development. Regional activity rates and productivity are also discussed and compared. Some basic questions about Italy's economic history are briefly considered, including the origins and extent of the north–south divide…
State Ownership and International Competitiveness
The article reconstructs the history of the Italian state-owned holding Finmeccanica, which since its birth in 1948 lived through a number of corporate reorganizations (shipyards, automobiles with Alfa Romeo, energy) and is now one of the leading European companies in aerospace and defence. With reference to the history of the Italian state entrepreneurship, this case may be paradigmatic of the advent of a new era, characterized by partially priv…
Regional development
This article presents estimates of per capita gross domestic product, workforce, product per worker and activity rates for the Italian regions in benchmark years from 1891 and 1951; historical estimates are linked to the official figures available from 1971 onwards, in order to capture the evolution of the long-term regional economic disparities. In light of this picture, the main analyses concerning the take-off of the north-west, the rise of th…
Regional value added in Italy, 1891-2001, and the foundation of a long-term picture1
This article presents value added estimates for the Italian regions, in benchmark years 1891–1951, which are linked to those from official figures available from 1971 on, in order to offer a long-term picture of Italy's regional development. Regional activity rates and productivity are also discussed and compared. Some basic questions about Italy's economic history are briefly considered, including the origins and extent of the north–south divide…
The Socio-Institutional Divide
The recent availability of more accurate estimates of regional gdp, of social indicators (human capital, life expectancy, the human development index [hdi], heights, inequality, and social capital), and of other indices (such as market potential) has helped to advance the study of the growth patterns within Italian regions from (approximately) unification to the present day. This up-to-date information provides the basis for a new explanation of …
State Ownership and International Competitiveness
The article reconstructs the history of the Italian state-owned holding Finmeccanica, which since its birth in 1948 lived through a number of corporate reorganizations (shipyards, automobiles with Alfa Romeo, energy) and is now one of the leading European companies in aerospace and defence. With reference to the history of the Italian state entrepreneurship, this case may be paradigmatic of the advent of a new era, characterized by partially priv…
Regional development
This article presents estimates of per capita gross domestic product, workforce, product per worker and activity rates for the Italian regions in benchmark years from 1891 and 1951; historical estimates are linked to the official figures available from 1971 onwards, in order to capture the evolution of the long-term regional economic disparities. In light of this picture, the main analyses concerning the take-off of the north-west, the rise of th…
Italy's Growth and Decline, 1861-2011
The large body of new statistical data that became available after the 150th anniversary of Italy's unification permits a re-examination of Italy's economic growth. Up-to-date estimates and re-interpretations of Italy's gdp from 1861 to 2011-at both the national and regional levels-in the light of institutional and technological changes within an international context find that Italy's economic growth was substantial early in the twentieth centur…
When did modernization begin? Italy's industrial growth reconsidered in light of new value-added series, 1911–1951
Italy’s Modern Economic Growth, 1861–2011
By making the most of a newly-available large set of historical statistics, the paper outlines the main features of Italy’s «modern economic growth» from Unification (1861) until the present day (2011). Alongside national GDP estimates, we also discuss regional disparities, living standards and inequality of personal income distribution. Over the long run, Italy successfully caught up with the most advanced economies, and did so in a virtuous man…
State intervention and economic growth in Southern Italy
In the second half of the twentieth century, the Italian government carried out a massive regional policy in southern Italy, through the State-owned agency ‘Cassa per il Mezzogiorno’ (1950–1986). The article reconstructs the activities of this agency, making use of its yearly reports and of national and local archives. The Cassa was effective in the first two decades, thanks to substantial technical autonomy and, in the 1960s, to a strong focus o…
GDP and life expectancy in Italy and Spain over the long run
A growing body of literature focuses on the relationship between life expectancy and GDP per capita. However, available studies to date are overwhelmingly based on either cross-country or cross-sectional data. We address the issue from a novel, more histor
The Misty Grail
Recent decades have seen a flurry of new indicators to measure economic progress, but none of them has succeeded in replacing GDP. This article seeks to explain this outcome and to contribute to the debate about composite indicators versus a dashboard approach. To this end, it reviews some of the most popular alternatives to GDP (the Human Development Index, the Genuine Progress Indicator, the Happy Planet Index, and an environmentally corrected …
The changing relationship between inflation and the economic cycle in Italy
State Ownership and International Competitiveness
The article reconstructs the history of the Italian state-owned holding Finmeccanica, which since its birth in 1948 lived through a number of corporate reorganizations (shipyards, automobiles with Alfa Romeo, energy) and is now one of the leading European companies in aerospace and defence. With reference to the history of the Italian state entrepreneurship, this case may be paradigmatic of the advent of a new era, characterized by partially priv…
Regional development
This article presents estimates of per capita gross domestic product, workforce, product per worker and activity rates for the Italian regions in benchmark years from 1891 and 1951; historical estimates are linked to the official figures available from 1971 onwards, in order to capture the evolution of the long-term regional economic disparities. In light of this picture, the main analyses concerning the take-off of the north-west, the rise of th…
Regional value added in Italy, 1891-2001, and the foundation of a long-term picture1
This article presents value added estimates for the Italian regions, in benchmark years 1891–1951, which are linked to those from official figures available from 1971 on, in order to offer a long-term picture of Italy's regional development. Regional activity rates and productivity are also discussed and compared. Some basic questions about Italy's economic history are briefly considered, including the origins and extent of the north–south divide…
Regional convergence in Italy, 1891–2001
When did modernization begin? Italy's industrial growth reconsidered in light of new value-added series, 1911–1951
Italy’s Modern Economic Growth, 1861–2011
By making the most of a newly-available large set of historical statistics, the paper outlines the main features of Italy’s «modern economic growth» from Unification (1861) until the present day (2011). Alongside national GDP estimates, we also discuss regional disparities, living standards and inequality of personal income distribution. Over the long run, Italy successfully caught up with the most advanced economies, and did so in a virtuous man…
The changing relationship between inflation and the economic cycle in Italy
Italy's Growth and Decline, 1861-2011
The large body of new statistical data that became available after the 150th anniversary of Italy's unification permits a re-examination of Italy's economic growth. Up-to-date estimates and re-interpretations of Italy's gdp from 1861 to 2011-at both the national and regional levels-in the light of institutional and technological changes within an international context find that Italy's economic growth was substantial early in the twentieth centur…
The Misty Grail
Recent decades have seen a flurry of new indicators to measure economic progress, but none of them has succeeded in replacing GDP. This article seeks to explain this outcome and to contribute to the debate about composite indicators versus a dashboard approach. To this end, it reviews some of the most popular alternatives to GDP (the Human Development Index, the Genuine Progress Indicator, the Happy Planet Index, and an environmentally corrected …
GDP and life expectancy in Italy and Spain over the long run
A growing body of literature focuses on the relationship between life expectancy and GDP per capita. However, available studies to date are overwhelmingly based on either cross-country or cross-sectional data. We address the issue from a novel, more histor
State intervention and economic growth in Southern Italy
In the second half of the twentieth century, the Italian government carried out a massive regional policy in southern Italy, through the State-owned agency ‘Cassa per il Mezzogiorno’ (1950–1986). The article reconstructs the activities of this agency, making use of its yearly reports and of national and local archives. The Cassa was effective in the first two decades, thanks to substantial technical autonomy and, in the 1960s, to a strong focus o…
The Socio-Institutional Divide
The recent availability of more accurate estimates of regional gdp, of social indicators (human capital, life expectancy, the human development index [hdi], heights, inequality, and social capital), and of other indices (such as market potential) has helped to advance the study of the growth patterns within Italian regions from (approximately) unification to the present day. This up-to-date information provides the basis for a new explanation of …
Rethinking the take-off
A tale of two Italies
This paper uses the ‘access orders’ paradigm developed by North, Wallis, and Weingast [(2009). Violence and social order: A conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press] to analyse the case of the Italian North–South economic divide. In line with their framework, we collect and discuss several social and political indicators over the long-run, at the regional level. Firstly we looked at data …
Diverging consequences of protectionism
We reconstruct agricultural production across Italian provinces from 1871 to 1911 and examine how protectionist tariffs differently impacted on economic growth. Using a difference-in-differences model, we find that tariffs' effects varied significantly following local agricultural institutions: in most of the North, tariffs fostered modernization and productivity growth; conversely, in the South tariffs, although benefitting landowners in the sho…
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