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Profiling identification with Europe and the EU project in the European regions
Full text linkRecent political events in the European Union (EU) highlighted a growing dissatisfaction of citizens in several EU regions with the EU institutions' management of socio-economic and financial challenges. This eventually led to a political legitimization crisis, whose drivers are partially shared among EU regions and partially area-specific. However, the relation between citizens' identification with the EU project and the regions' characteristics has not been analysed yet. In this article, we fill in this gap by addressing three research questions: i) To what extent do EU citizens identify with Europe and the EU project? ii) Do European regions have different patterns and level of identification? iii) Are the results driven by specific socio-economic variables? Answering these questions is crucial to inform a more inclusive and resilient design of the EU Cohesion Policy in a crucial period for reforming the EU. To this purpose, we develop a novel probabilistic classification model, IdentEU, which embeds with the concept of individual identification with Europe. We use micro-level data from a survey implemented within the PERCEIVE project. We find that the influencing variables that mostly affect (citizens and) regions' identification with the European project are: trust in the EU institutions, the effectiveness of EU Cohesion Policy and spending, and the level of corruption. These issues gain relevance at the light of three main challenges that affected the EU socio-economic development path in the last decade, i.e. the 2008 financial crisis, the globalization process, and Brexit
Mapping citizens' identification with the EU
Full text linkDo citizens show different patterns of European identification? Are the results driven by specific regional characteristics? Has Cohesion Policy an influence on EU citizens' identification?. With the aim to answer these questions, we develop a novel probabilistic model that allows classification of citizens according to their different patterns of identification with Europe and the European project. This model exploits the heterogeneity of citizens' identification patterns across the European regions and how they are influenced by individual and regional characteristics. The results of the analysis at regional level are presented with regards to nine case-study regions. The model builds on PERCEIVE's research results that develop the theoretical framework for the definition and measurement of the level of identification with EU and its drivers
Sincronia e distanza nel ciclo economico delle regioni italiane
Full text linkThis paper is based on the data set of 20 Italian regional high frequency business indicators proposed in Benni, Brasili (2006) and successively developed by RegiosS (Cycle & Trends association). The aim of the present paper is to provide a retrospective analysis of the characteristics of regional cycles and their co-movements to better understand the consequences of the global crisis on the local economies.
We will going to apply two methodologies to analyse the distances among the Italian regional business cycle. We calculate the cohesion measure (Croux et al. 2001) on two sub-samples of the indicators, in order to evaluate if co-movements have increased recently. Moreover we calculate the cohesion measure also for the regions before and after the adoption of the Euro currency and respect to the Italian cycle.
On the structural side the differential on cycle profiles of the regions is interpreted in terms of the different product specialisation, the degree of financial markets development and the research intensity of firms
A Mosaic Type of Development: Food Discricts and SME's in the Italian Experience
No full textThe Italian Industrial Districts (IDs) are now considered in the national and international literature as one of the main factors of the successful and rapid industrial development of Italy after the Second World War. In this paper we outline the general characteristics of the IDs approach and then the distinctive figures of the agrifood districts. A mosaic type of development characterised the geographical distribution of the different agrifood districts in the Italian experience. The different origins of agrifood districts often determines their production and structural characteristics of firms, with a relevant role of SMEs. In many cases, these districts originated from handcraft traditions and specific local demand. Their specialized production is often related to typical or high-quality products. The increasing demand for quality and typical food products might widen the possibility of developing local and regional food districts. In the second part of the paper, we have evaluated the economic performance and technical efficiency of a panel of firms in the meat sector which belong or not to the districts, for the period 1998-2002. Some very interesting results have been obtained from the economic and financial analysis on balance sheets of a large number of firms in the meat processing. The stochastic production frontier has been utilized to measure the “district effect”. We have noticed that in the last years, the “district effect” has been reducing according to the general difficulties of Italian industrial sector
Structural Changes and the Role of Districts in the Development of the Italian Food Industry
No full textIn the first section of this chapter, we outline the general characteristcs of the Italian food industry and its structural changes between 1981 and 2001. The processes of concentration and specialization of the food industry at the regional and provincial levels for the main sub-sectors are analysed in the second section. In the third section, the ID approach is used to analyse the strucutural characteristics and processing, fruit and vegetables, and the dairy industry). Finally, we present our main conclusions
The Behaviour of Relative Food Prices: An Analysis Across the European Countries
No full textWe analyze the behaviour of relative food prices for a set of 24 European countries observed during the period 1996.1 - 2007.12. We use recent methods for the analysis of nonstationary panels to show that food prices dynamics can be decomposed into a common component and an idiosyncratic component. From this decomposition we compute and analyze the real exchange rates for a set of food products. We find that countries included in the euro-area are more market integrated, i.e. real exchange rates tend to converge, than countries that did not adopt euro
PERCEIVE project - Deliverable D1.1 "Report on regional case-studies"
No full textDeliverable 1.1 of the PERCEIVE project aims at analyzing the results of the focus groups conducted by partners with Cohesion Policy practitioners and experts in the selected case-studies and includes a SWOT analysis of the case-study regions that highlights each region's specificities. The focus groups made use of a semi-structured questionnaire who investigated on the multilevel governance system, on the level of Cohesion Policy partners' engagement and on the communication strategies carried out by LMAs
A pseudo-panel approach to the analysis of the agricultural convergence: the European case
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