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Il Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza in una prospettiva di politica industriale
Get PDFIl Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) stanzia oltre 230 miliardi di risorse per la ripartenza dell’economia dopo la crisi del Covid-19. Quest’articolo fornisce un’analisi del PNRR, con un focus sulle sue implicazioni di politica industriale. La sfida della ricostruzione dell’economia italiana richiede una minore frammentazione degli interventi e l’esplicitazione di una traiettoria di sviluppo di medio periodo; tale visione è però assente nell’impostazione e nei contenuti del Piano. Le risorse nazionali ed europee disponibili per affrontare la crisi dovrebbero concentrarsi su obiettivi e settori prioritari, come le tecnologie digitali, le attività economiche sostenibili dal punto di vista ambientale e i servizi di benessere e sanità pubblica. Sono necessari nuovi strumenti politici mirati, che vadano oltre gli incentivi ‘orizzontali’ alle imprese; nuove istituzioni pubbliche potrebbero guidare gli sforzi di investimento verso una nuova traiettoria di sviluppo
The Italian government’s economic-policy response to the Coronavirus crisis
Get PDFThe Italian government’s economic policy response to the Covid-19 pandemic crisis has included large public programmes supporting households’ incomes and firms’ balance sheets, alongside a limited expansion of public health expenditures. The macroeconomic response has been in line with those of other European countries; Europe’s new approach to fiscal policy has opened up new possibilities for addressing the crisis. However, beyond the pandemic emergency, the government’s policy approach has lacked a longer-term perspective on economic reconstruction, environmental sustainability, welfare expansion and distributional outcomes. The fragility of Italian politics has contributed to this lack of vision and to a growing uncertainty over the country’s economic future
What is to be produced? The making of a new industrial policy in Europe.
No full textThe goals of developing high-knowledge economic activities, expanding industry, reaching environmental sustainability and achieving greater convergence are clearly stated in the Europe 2020 strategy and in the major policy documents of the European Union. What is the policy space for industrial policy in Europe? The current institutional setting of the EU is hardly adequate to address such challenges and to accommodate such policy tools. Building on this analysis, chapter 4 of the report introduces a proposal for a European industrial policy that goes well beyond traditional approaches. It calls for a Europe-wide industrial policy, moving beyond traditional national actions. A policy mobilising 2% of Europe’s GDP (about EUR 260 billion) per decade is proposed, offering at the same time greater national policy space with a ‘golden rule’ for public investment. A crucial goal of this policy is to reduce the divergence between Europe’s centre and periphery, and therefore the resources of industrial policy should be concentrated in weaker regions and weaker countries
Rethinking the European Green Deal: an industrial policy for a just transition in Europe
Get PDFThe European Green Deal (EGD), launched by the European Commission in December 2019, is a major policy package addressing climate change and aiming at a "just and inclusive" transition. Several shortcomings can be identified in the EGD: it lacks a vision of a just, post-carbon economy for Europe; available resources are inadequate to reach stated objectives; and implementation tools are limited. We argue that making Europe's production systems carbon neutral would require a broader range of "green" industrial policies that need to jointly address environmental sustainability, structural change, and fairness of economic outcomes in Europe
Business services and the export performances of manufacturing industries
No full textThis paper investigates the contribution provided by the Business service sector (BS) to the international competitiveness of manufacturing industries that acquire and use intangible intermediate inputs (in particular, those provided by two main BS sub-sectors: “Communication and computer related services” and “Other business activities”). The main empirical focus of this paper is on the “dynamic efficiency gains” brought about by the interaction of manufacturing and BS industries and, in particular, on assessing the role of BS in supporting (in a Schumpeterian fashion) various types of non-price competitive factors, the most important being the capacity of developing and introducing new products, more effective organizational innovations and new business models. The empirical analysis is based on an original data set obtained by integrating – for a selected number of EU countries - different industry level data sources, namely the OECD Input-output Tables, the OECD Structural Analysis Database and data provided by the Community Innovation Survey. The results of the empirical analysis show that BS do exert a positive impact on the international competitiveness of manufacturing industries, even though these effects vary according to the type of intermediate intangible input acquired and type of user sector
The role of technology, organization and contextual factors inthe development of e-Government services: An empiricalanalysis on Italian Local Public Administrations
No full textUsing data drawn from the 2007 and 2009 Istat ICT-PA surveys on 4471 Italian munic-ipalities, we identify the technological, organizational, and contextual factors associatedwith the development of e-Government services in local administrations. We find thatboth outsourcing and internal accumulation of ICT competencies are strongly correlatedto the provision of these services. Moreover we observe that in-house ICT activities havetwice as high an impact on e-Government development as compared to ICT outsourcing.The enactment of advanced e-services is less likely in the case of small municipalities, insparsely populated areas, and in the presence of higher rates of growth of the elder com-ponent of population. By contrast it is more likely in areas characterized by more intensepatenting activities, which in turn favour a dynamic and sophisticated demand for newservices. Though broadly consistent with Fountain’s “technology enactment framework”,our findings suggest that more emphasis should be given to the internal competencies ofpublic administrations, and to context specific factors reflecting the characteristics of endusers
Una politica industriale per il dopo-pandemia in Italia
Get PDFItaly’s economy has been severely hit by the coronavirus crisis, after a decade of stagnation and decline in its capabilities and performances. The challenge of reconstructing the country’s economy requires a new industrial policy, in the context of Europe’s Green deal strategy and new initiatives of the «Recovery Fund». The national and European resources that are made available for addressing the crisis have to focus on key priority fields, including digital technologies, environmentally sustainable economic activities and welfare and public health services. There is also a need for new policy tools and institutions with the tasks of managing public investment, holding government shares in publicly owned large firms, and supporting new economic initiatives with a public investment bank
The contribution of Business services to the export performances of manufacturing industries. An empirical study on 5 European countries
No full textThis paper investigates the contribution provided by the Business service sector (BS) to the international competitiveness of manufacturing industries that acquire and use intangible intermediate inputs (in particular those provided by two main BS sub-sectors: “Communication and computer related services” and “Other business activities”). The main valued added of this paper consists of having assessed the role played by BS on the export performances of manufacturing sectors integrating – for a selected number of EU countries - different industry level data sources, namely the OECD Input-Output Tables, the OECD Structural Analysis Database and data provided by the Community Innovation Survey. The results of the empirical analysis show that BS do exert a positive impact on the international competitiveness of manufacturing industries even though these effects vary according to the type of intermediate intangible input acquired and type of user sector
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