TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fernández-Villaverde,Jesús
AU  - Laudati,Dario
AU  - Ohanian,Lee E.
AU  - Quadrini,Vincenzo
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Accounting for the Duality of the Italian Economy
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
KW  - General
KW  - jelc
KW  - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
N1  - June 2023; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - After 162 years of political unification, Italy still displays large regional economic differences. In 2019, the per capita GDP of Lombardia was 39,700 euros, but Calabria's per capita GDP was only 17,300 euros. We build a two-region, two-sector model of the Italian economy to measure the wedges that could account for the differences in aggregate variables between the North and the South. We find that the largest driver of the regional disparity in per capita output is the difference in total factor productivity, followed by fiscal redistribution. These two factors, together, account for more than 70 percent of the output disparity between the North and the South
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w31299
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w31299
ER  -