Spatial patterns of territorial competitiveness: The role of peripherality, urbanization and physical geography
- Authors: Fantechi, Federico; Fratesi, Ugo
- Publication year: 2024
- Type: Articolo in rivista
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/637427
Abstract
Intra-regional measures of territorial competitiveness capture heterogeneity across different territories and industries. • Accessibility, peripherality and geographical disadvantage, play different roles in different sectors of economic activity. • The paper highlights a large centripetal attraction effect coming from the presence of metropolitan areas. • This second-nature geography effect dominates over first-nature physical geography (peripherality, mountains).