Construction in Italy's regions, 1861-1913

This paper presents time-series estimates of construction activity in the regions of post-Unification Italy. Total construction followed very different time paths, reflecting the sharply local cycles in railway construction. Other public works were less idiosyncratic; the boom of the Giolitti years was widely diffused, but that of the 1880s was much more concentrated in Latium and Liguria. In the construction of buildings, the Giolittian boom was marked in the North and Center, but spotty in the South and major islands; earlier swings were comparatively minor, save of course for the 1880s bubble in Latium. Over the long term, railway construction was, per-capita, relatively evenly spread. Other social-overhead construction displays a similar pattern, but with exceptionally high levels in Latium and Liguria. Building construction seems instead to have declined somewhat from North to South; Liguria was again the overall leader, with Latium second.

Ship building and repairing in Italy, 1861-1913: national and regional time series

This paper presents the first comprehensive national and regional time-series estimates for ship building and repairing in post-Unification Italy. The path of the national aggregate differs markedly from the extant series, which cover merchant new-construction alone. The regional estimates point to considerable concentration: Liguria accounted for more than half the product, and Campania for almost another quarter. In Liguria, too, this sector represented up to a quarter of total industrial production; elsewhere, and nationally, it was barely significant.Italy, ship building industry, national and regional value added, 1861-1913

METALMAKING IN ITALY, 1861-1913: NATIONAL AND REGIONAL TIME SERIES

This paper presents national and regional time-series estimates of metalmaking production in post-Unification Italy. The former broadly confirm their immediate predecessors; the latter are altogether new. The regional series evidence the industry's geographic concentration: the significant producers were Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Tuscany, Umbria, and Campania, but production per capita significantly exceeded the national average only in Liguria and, in the later years, in Umbria and Tuscany.

Through the Magnifying Glass: Provincial Aspects of Industrial Growth in Post-Unification Italy

In post-Unification Italy industrialization was ever sharply sub-regional. Initially industry was largely artisanal, and located in the former political capitals; factory industry was instead attracted by the waterfalls of the subalpine Northwest. From the 1880s, as modernization accelerated, industry concentrated: in the Lombard and Piedmontese subalpine provinces with the late-nineteenth-century boom in (protected) textiles, then particularly in Turin and Milan with the engineering boom, and novel energy-transmission, of the belle époque; and in Liguria's Genoa, which captured (subsidized) civil and naval shipbuilding. The only significant diffusion came as (newly protected) beet-sugar-extraction spread throughout Emilia.Italy, pre-1913, regional industrialization

Reconstructing the Past: The New Expenditure-Side and Composition-Of-Investment Estimates for Italy, 1861–1913

This paper documents the derivation of the new expenditure-side historical national accounts, and of the estimated composition of investment, presented in the author’s “Reconstructing the past: Italy’s historical national accounts, 1861–1913,” M.P.R.A. n. 98350, January 2020

Reconstructing the Past: The New Expenditure-Side and Composition-Of-Investment Estimates for Italy, 1861–1913

This paper documents the derivation of the new expenditure-side historical national accounts, and of the estimated composition of investment, presented in the author’s “Reconstructing the past: Italy’s historical national accounts, 1861–1913,” M.P.R.A. n. 98350, January 2020

Reconstructing The Past: The New Production-Side Estimates For Italy, 1861–1913

This paper documents the derivation of the revised production-side estimates presented in the author’s “Reconstructing the past: Italy’s historical national accounts, 1861–1913,” M.P.R.A. n. 98350, January 2020

Reconstructing The Past: The New Production-Side Estimates For Italy, 1861–1913

This paper documents the derivation of the revised production-side estimates presented in the author’s “Reconstructing the past: Italy’s historical national accounts, 1861–1913,” M.P.R.A. n. 98350, January 2020