Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/257082 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] Economies [ISSN:] 2227-7099 [Volume:] 8 [Issue:] 2 [Article No.:] 33 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 1-13
Publisher: 
MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
This study analyzes the links between Italian inner area municipalities' expenditure and per capita incomes, considered as a proxy of well-being. Inner areas are territorial contexts characterized by a significant distance from the centers, the main supply poles of essential services. Following a top-down approach, the paper at first demonstrates the existence of a global convergence process in per capita incomes, with a faster rate of convergence in inner areas with respect to centers; then, attention is focused on local administrations' policies and their impact on incomes in Italian inner areas. The paper gives a twofold contribution to the debate about the implementation of territorial cohesion policies: (a) on one side, public expenditure data are considered for the first time in an econometric model regarding Italian inner areas; (b) on the other side, the reference territorial subdivision is the lowest possible, giving the opportunity to investigate the changes in well-being at the finest scale.
Subjects: 
Italian inner areas
local public expenditures
panel regression model
per capita incomes
spatial error model
JEL: 
R58
H72
C33
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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