Chiara Del Bo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5918304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chiara Del Bo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chiara |
| FAMILY NAME | Del Bo |
| SIGNATURE | DEL BÒ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8684-5383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Recent advances in policy and project evaluation
Cost–benefit analysis, and more generally policy evaluation through quantitative methods, provides governments and citizens with insights for decision‐making. The Special Issue offers evidence about the relevance of ways to structure analysis with the tools of applied economics. This article is the editorial introduction of this Special Issue, arising from both a European Conference of the Society for Benefit‐Cost Analysis, organized by the Unive…
Regional institutions and the urban digital divide
The digital divide represents one of the many facets of socio-economic inequalities, creating a wedge between citizens with the means and ability to reap the benefits related to modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) and those who lack these resources and skills. Among its determinants at the individual and more aggregate level, space-specific factors, including the quality of regional institutions, may affect its geographical b…
Smart Cities in Europe” Revisited
Following up on a two decades-long debate on Smart Cities, this article provides quantitative evidence regarding the impact on urban economic outcomes of the adoption of Smart City strategies in planning and managing modern cities. In order to achieve this aim, a meta-analysis of quantitative and modeling studies is presented as a systematic synthesis tool, based on a keyword search on Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus data bases. Our me…
Smart cities and urban inequality
Smart city technologies are criticized because they might exacerbate income inequalities. Four factors are suggested to explain this phenomenon: the uneven diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs); that these ICTs cannot be afforded by low-income citizens; that smart cities could further human capital divides; and the involvement of private actors in the implementation of projects. These critiques are not based on empirical …
Smart innovative cities
Much Ado About Something? An Appraisal of the Relationship Between Smart City and Smart Specialisation Policies
Smart policies at the urban (smart city initiatives) and the regional (smart specialisation Strategies, S3) level, both fostered by the need to better spend the reduced budget available for EU policy‐making, have recently gained much attention. While some attempts have been made to explore the growth potential of the two policies separately, no empirical analysis has considered their joint contribution to regional growth. This paper identifies tw…
The political economy of privatization in rich democracies
Smart Cities
Do Smart Cities Invest in Smarter Policies? Learning From the Past, Planning for the Future
Research on Smart Cities has come of age. Intense discussion on this topic has been ongoing for years, and the academic prominence of this concept has also engendered several policy initiatives inspired by this label at different administrative levels. However, to date, no large-scale evaluation of the relationship between urban smartness and smart urban policies has been attempted. This article aims at filling this gap. By building on a solid de…
Smartness and European urban performance
In this paper we adopt a comprehensive definition of Smart City and examine whether and how the main characteristics of urban smartness are growth-enhancing. With a sample of cities from the European Union we assess the cityspecific impacts on urban performance of a complex ‘‘urban smartness’’ indicator by applying a Spatial Autoregressive Local Estimate to an urban production function. The results of this econometric analysis point in the direct…
Smart Cities in Europe
Urban performance currently depends not only on a city's endowment of hard infrastructure (physical capital), but also, and increasingly so, on the availability and quality of knowledge communication and social infrastructure (human and social capital). The latter form of capital is decisive for urban competitiveness. Against this background, the concept of the “smart city” has recently been introduced as a strategic device to encompass modern ur…
Smart cities and urban inequality
Smart city technologies are criticized because they might exacerbate income inequalities. Four factors are suggested to explain this phenomenon: the uneven diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs); that these ICTs cannot be afforded by low-income citizens; that smart cities could further human capital divides; and the involvement of private actors in the implementation of projects. These critiques are not based on empirical …
Smartness and European urban performance
In this paper we adopt a comprehensive definition of Smart City and examine whether and how the main characteristics of urban smartness are growth-enhancing. With a sample of cities from the European Union we assess the cityspecific impacts on urban performance of a complex ‘‘urban smartness’’ indicator by applying a Spatial Autoregressive Local Estimate to an urban production function. The results of this econometric analysis point in the direct…
Do Smart Cities Invest in Smarter Policies? Learning From the Past, Planning for the Future
Research on Smart Cities has come of age. Intense discussion on this topic has been ongoing for years, and the academic prominence of this concept has also engendered several policy initiatives inspired by this label at different administrative levels. However, to date, no large-scale evaluation of the relationship between urban smartness and smart urban policies has been attempted. This article aims at filling this gap. By building on a solid de…
Much Ado About Something? An Appraisal of the Relationship Between Smart City and Smart Specialisation Policies
Smart policies at the urban (smart city initiatives) and the regional (smart specialisation Strategies, S3) level, both fostered by the need to better spend the reduced budget available for EU policy‐making, have recently gained much attention. While some attempts have been made to explore the growth potential of the two policies separately, no empirical analysis has considered their joint contribution to regional growth. This paper identifies tw…
Regional institutions and the urban digital divide
The digital divide represents one of the many facets of socio-economic inequalities, creating a wedge between citizens with the means and ability to reap the benefits related to modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) and those who lack these resources and skills. Among its determinants at the individual and more aggregate level, space-specific factors, including the quality of regional institutions, may affect its geographical b…
Smart Cities in Europe
Urban performance currently depends not only on a city's endowment of hard infrastructure (physical capital), but also, and increasingly so, on the availability and quality of knowledge communication and social infrastructure (human and social capital). The latter form of capital is decisive for urban competitiveness. Against this background, the concept of the “smart city” has recently been introduced as a strategic device to encompass modern ur…
Smartness and European urban performance
In this paper we adopt a comprehensive definition of Smart City and examine whether and how the main characteristics of urban smartness are growth-enhancing. With a sample of cities from the European Union we assess the cityspecific impacts on urban performance of a complex ‘‘urban smartness’’ indicator by applying a Spatial Autoregressive Local Estimate to an urban production function. The results of this econometric analysis point in the direct…
Smart Cities
Do Smart Cities Invest in Smarter Policies? Learning From the Past, Planning for the Future
Research on Smart Cities has come of age. Intense discussion on this topic has been ongoing for years, and the academic prominence of this concept has also engendered several policy initiatives inspired by this label at different administrative levels. However, to date, no large-scale evaluation of the relationship between urban smartness and smart urban policies has been attempted. This article aims at filling this gap. By building on a solid de…
The political economy of privatization in rich democracies
Much Ado About Something? An Appraisal of the Relationship Between Smart City and Smart Specialisation Policies
Smart policies at the urban (smart city initiatives) and the regional (smart specialisation Strategies, S3) level, both fostered by the need to better spend the reduced budget available for EU policy‐making, have recently gained much attention. While some attempts have been made to explore the growth potential of the two policies separately, no empirical analysis has considered their joint contribution to regional growth. This paper identifies tw…
Smart innovative cities
Smart cities and urban inequality
Smart city technologies are criticized because they might exacerbate income inequalities. Four factors are suggested to explain this phenomenon: the uneven diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs); that these ICTs cannot be afforded by low-income citizens; that smart cities could further human capital divides; and the involvement of private actors in the implementation of projects. These critiques are not based on empirical …
Smart Cities in Europe” Revisited
Following up on a two decades-long debate on Smart Cities, this article provides quantitative evidence regarding the impact on urban economic outcomes of the adoption of Smart City strategies in planning and managing modern cities. In order to achieve this aim, a meta-analysis of quantitative and modeling studies is presented as a systematic synthesis tool, based on a keyword search on Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus data bases. Our me…
Recent advances in policy and project evaluation
Cost–benefit analysis, and more generally policy evaluation through quantitative methods, provides governments and citizens with insights for decision‐making. The Special Issue offers evidence about the relevance of ways to structure analysis with the tools of applied economics. This article is the editorial introduction of this Special Issue, arising from both a European Conference of the Society for Benefit‐Cost Analysis, organized by the Unive…
Regional institutions and the urban digital divide
The digital divide represents one of the many facets of socio-economic inequalities, creating a wedge between citizens with the means and ability to reap the benefits related to modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) and those who lack these resources and skills. Among its determinants at the individual and more aggregate level, space-specific factors, including the quality of regional institutions, may affect its geographical b…
Computer Science (8 works) · Regional science (7 works) · Smart city (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Smart Cities and Technologies (6 works) · Computer security (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Urban planning (5 works)