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Using entropy measures to disentangle regional from national localization patterns
No full textLocalization of economic activities is a manifestation of two closely-related economic phenomena: the specialization of geographical units and the spatial concentration of industries. Nonetheless, the direction of changes in concentration and specialization, across national boundaries, may differ from those occurring within countries. Combining a regional approach with an international perspective, the paper introduces an entropy index of overall localization that allows specialization to be conceptualized as the mirror image of concentration, and also focuses attention on the possible divergence in agglomeration patterns at the different spatial scales
Sviluppo economico e trasformazioni nei distretti marchigiani del Made in Italy: problemi recenti e prospettive
No full textThe changing location of the European industry- A twofold geographical perspective
No full textThis paper empirically investigates the evolution of industrial location in Europe since the launching of the Single Market Programme. On the basis of Eurostat regional data and applying
decomposition analysis and bootstrap significance tests, the paper draws a clear scenario for the Pre and Post-Single Market periods. Results suggest that European industries trickled down among EU countries and regions prior the completion of the Programme, while afterwards national specialisation according to comparative advantage occurred in two core sectors: textiles and wearing apparel and transport equipment. Nonetheless, most of the structural change, particularly in more recent years, occurred in the internal geography of countries. Several economic forces pulling towards dispersion may rationalize the overwhelming significant decline in the inner-country localisation, congestion
costs, intra-national decentralisation of production activities being among the most plausible. This leads to recognize that European economic integration have been simply a part of the story
and additional overlapping advances, like the improvements in communication and transportation technology, may have played a competing role in the new configuration of the European economic
geography
Evolution of local systems in the context of enlargement
No full textThe aim of this paper is to outline the main patterns of change at the local level in the most important Italian shoes district in relation to the transition process occurring in the Central and Eastern European Countries. The increased economic integration raises the necessity to conceptualise the industrial district as a part of a wider framework of production. The internal reorganization at the local level is interpreted combining two different theoretical approaches: the territorial perspective that is rooted in local development literature and the ‘productive stages’ perspective typical of the value chain analysis. The systemic characteristics that underpin both of them suggest integrating the two points of view. After an overview of the main characteristics of the two complementary frameworks I will tried to provide an interpretation of the recent evolution of the shoes industrial district. The information presented in the empirical session is based on a field study carried out in the Italian shoes industrial district of Marche during the period from December 2000 to August 20011. The research method relied on in-depth interviews with 35 local entrepreneurs and other key informants (local institutions namely 'local industrial association' Unione Industriali del Fermano)
The Balassa index Meets the dissimilarity Theil index: a decomposition methodology for location studies
No full textIt is well known that the broad concept of localisation has two connotations, namely, regional specialisation and industrial concentration. The main purpose of this paper is to introduce
an entropy index of overall localisation suitable to conceptualise specialisation and concentration as the two sides of the same medal in a nested geographical perspective. The system of dissimilarity entropy measures is potentially applicable to the assessment of the spatial distribution of several economic phenomena when a twofold geographical level of analysis is
considered. In the specific case, the decomposition provides an accurate method to quantify the cross-country divergence in localisation from the agglomeration within countries
Trends in European manufacturing location: country versus region
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to investigate whether and to what extent European manufacturing location has been driven by regional localisation or national comparative advantages during the period 1985-2001. To this end, the relative concentration
pattern of each industry is disentangled into within and between country components. The methodology adopted is based on the use of the Theil dissimilarity entropy index allowing to handle two geographical levels of analysis. The evidence suggests that the agglomeration of manufacturing industries is more likely to find expression between the internal regions of each country rather than across countries. Counterintuitively, after the completion of the Single European Market the relevance of national border remains stable or even increase in the localisation of the majority of the sectors considered
Tipologie di sviluppo territoriale nell’industria leggera: uno sguardo al Brasile
No full textThis article depicts the main Brazilian clusters specialized in traditional industries in a way that accounts for two discriminating variables usually treated as closely intertwined features: the extent of Marshallian external economies and the development of institutions devoted to local governance. The inquiry into different case studies suggests that extensive agglomeration economies do not prevent from the failure of collective actions clarifying that the presence of agglomeration economies does not necessarily imply an efficient local governance. Instead, some embryonic clusters are endowed with those social traits- such as cooperation and trust among final producers- and institutional assets usually associated to the industrial district model. Since the two system characteristics identified – institutional density and internal complexity- may well be detached, a typology of clusters is introduced as a guide for local economic policy
Attività di ricerca e raccolta dati su indicatori di sostenibilità urbana (adesione all'iniziativa comunitaria European Common Indicators-Towards a Sustainability Profile)
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