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Industrial Districts and Economic Decline in Italy

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  • Paolo Ramazzotti

    (University of Macerata)

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    � The paper argues that the so-called canonical view of the Italian industrial district (ID) depicts it as a system whose economic and social vitality requires the interaction between two major sub-systems: a community of people and a community of firms. A range of circumstances - including insufficient aggregate demand, competition from low-cost coun- tries and technological change - have determined inconsistencies between the rationales of these two sub-systems. As a result, lead firms have emerged that substitute the ID as coordinating instances. In the pursuit of their goals, they tend to prefer cost scrapping to quality enhancement, thereby determining a competition that further undermines the ID as a system. The paper contends that this outcome is not the only possible one. An alternative would require the regulatory - as opposed to merely permissive - action of pub- lic actors in that it would have to change the incentive system that leads firms to choose short-sighted strategies.

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    Paper provided by Macerata University, Department of Finance and Economic Sciences in its series Working Papers with number 45-2008.

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    Date of creation: Oct 2008
    Date of revision: Oct 2008
    Handle: RePEc:mcr:wpdief:wpaper00045

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    1. Ottati, Gabi Dei, 1994. "Trust, Interlinking Transactions and Credit in the Industrial District," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 18(6), pages 529-46, December.
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