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Determinazione di aree economiche per la valutazione dell’impatto sul sistema produttivo italiano delle misure di contrasto all’epidemia da Covid-19
[Economic areas detection for assessing the impact on Italian productive system of the measures to counteract the epidemic from Covid-19]

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  • Anitori, Paola
  • De Gregorio, Carlo
  • Reale, Alessandra
  • Sforzi, Fabio

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The paper proposes a new geography of nested economic areas that shape the Italian economy. These economic areas, named economic regions and economic macro-regions, are an upper tier integration of Local Labour Systems (LLS) obtained using a Community Detection algorithm called INFOMAP. This approachdetermines the optimal number of regions and the assignment of LLS to them, minimizing a function known as MAP Equation. In the paper, these economic areas are the unit of analysis for impact assessment on the Italian economy of control measures implemented by the government to counteract the epidemic from Covid-19. Moreover, if the purpose is to contain new epidemic hotbeds of Covid-19, these areas are the most suitable tool for doing so, because of their extremely high self-containment, much higher than that of LLSs. Finally, the paper suggests their utility for both epidemiological and socio-economic monitoring.

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  • Anitori, Paola & De Gregorio, Carlo & Reale, Alessandra & Sforzi, Fabio, 2020. "Determinazione di aree economiche per la valutazione dell’impatto sul sistema produttivo italiano delle misure di contrasto all’epidemia da Covid-19 [Economic areas detection for assessing the impa," MPRA Paper 101820, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:101820
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    Keywords

    Covid-19; SARS-CoV-2; journey to work; infomap; community detection; graph partitioning; functional areas; local labour systems; local productive systems; economic regions; macro-economic regions; Italy;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D85 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Network Formation
    • L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General
    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
    • R10 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General

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