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The Italian coal shortage: the price of import and distribution, 1861-1911

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  • Vania Licio

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This paper estimates a measure of coal price for all NUTS3 Italian provinces between 1861 and 1911. Italy was a latecomer country and its late industrialization was characterized by the absence of coal in a time where the steam engine powered factory work. The new variable accounts for the main input factor of the manufacturing production during that period in which the Italian economy registered a long-term growth of GDP and an increase in its industrial activity. The infrastructural scarcity and the uneven water endowment, that still today rule the di erences between northern and southern Italy, were responsible for the di erent weight the price of coal had across the country

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  • Vania Licio, 2022. "The Italian coal shortage: the price of import and distribution, 1861-1911," Department of Economics University of Siena 875, Department of Economics, University of Siena.
    • Handle: RePEc:usi:wpaper:875
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    1. Wang, Bo & Yang, Haoting & Tian, Wenjuan & Bi, Chunyu, 2023. "Determinants of trade of mineral resources between China and ASEAN," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 85(PB).

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    Keywords

    Coal; Italy; Provinces; Railways; Infrastructure; Transport costs;
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    JEL classification:

    • N13 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: Pre-1913
    • N53 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries - - - Europe: Pre-1913
    • N73 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - Europe: Pre-1913
    • N93 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Europe: Pre-1913
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices

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