The paper uses data from the Italian regional public accounts database to investigate and analyze the heterogeneity of the impact of public infrastructure across Italian regions, both on institutional and political grounds. Heterogeneity is addressed by linking the impact of infrastructure on...

Resilience is a concept derived from engineering and ecology relating to the way in which systems react to, and recover from, shocks. According to several recent analyses, different ‘resilience behaviours' are able to explain differences in the economic performance of regions. This study shows...

The use of Composite Indicators (CIs) experienced significant momentum in recent years within academia, policy makers, practitioners, and global institutions. Despite the burst of popularity, an ongoing criticism has been developed around their computation with respect to both weighting and...