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No. 9 - Economic integration between the Mezzogiorno and the Centre North

The book brings together a series of research papers presented at a workshop on "Economic integration between the Mezzogiorno and the Centre North", held at the Bank of Italy in Rome on 15 March 2011. The workshop assessed the degree of economic integration between the two areas from several viewpoints. Two papers examined the mechanism of propagation of shocks between the South and the Centre North from a macroeconomic perspective, using spatial VAR and regional input-output tables, three papers assessed the role of firms and banks in the Centre North for the economy in the South of the country, and one estimated the expenditure of domestic and foreign tourists in the two areas.