On 15 March 2011, the Bank of Italy hosted a workshop on the economic integration between the Mezzogiorno and the Centre North.
The workshop aimed to assess the degree of economic integration of the two areas from several viewpoints. Two papers examined the mechanism of propagation of shocks between the Mezzogiorno 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. The last paper estimated the expenditure of domestic tourists in the two areas.
