This study examines the effect of various forms of investment expenditure (gross fixed capital
formation, R&D and European Structural and Investment Funds) on employment across …

This paper estimates the multipliers of two types of government spending in the 20 Italian
administrative regions throughout 1960–2017, distinguishing between phases of expansion …

This study analyses the regional impact of public expenditures focusing on three domains
central to the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP): green, digital and …

This paper estimates fiscal multipliers resulting from shocks to current public expenditure,
total public revenues, and public investment in Italian regions by accounting for the structural …

In this letter, we use the Proxy-SVAR approach to investigate fiscal multipliers in Italy. We
also estimate distinct multipliers for the Centre-North and the South. Our findings are …

Purpose Traditional economic policy prescriptions proposed to address the Italian North-
South divide mainly suggest that, in order to reduce unemployment and stimulate …

This paper focuses on the impact of EU structural funds (SFs) on the GDP per capita of 183
European NUTS‐2 regions throughout the 1990–2018 period. To allow for the endogeneity …

We contribute to the long-standing debate on the Italian North-South divide by assessing the
impact of public spending on social infrastructure-including education, healthcare, childcare …

We assess the impact of regional policies on the economies of the 20 Italian regions for the
period 1994–2016. We adopt a control function approach incorporating the funds' allocation …

Abstract The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) is an important
part of the European Union's strategies under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). It …