Arestis, P, Fontana, G and Phelps, P (2017) Regional Financialisation and Financial Systems Convergence: Evidence from Italy. Environment and Planning A, 49 (1). pp. 141-167. ISSN 0308-518X
Abstract
The term ‘financialisation’ has now entered the lexicon of academics and policy makers, though there is still no agreement on its meaning and significance. One of the earlier definitions was offered by Epstein (2005; see also Krippner, 2005), who referred to the growing weight of financial motives, financial actors and markets in the operation of modern economies, both at the national and international level, from the early 1980s until today. Building on this definition, this paper sheds further light on the implications of spatial financialisation, which has been associated with the over and under-extension of credit across and within countries and evolving financial instability. The paper’s primary contribution is to extend in a robust manner a powerful panel data convergence testing methodology to analyse the spatial scale and temporal evolution of Italian regional lending conditions. The paper concludes that financial divergence has broadly increased in Italian regions. Furthermore, we are able to link regional financialisation to the growing north-south divide in a significant and meaningful way. As a result the ability of southern regions in Italy to absorb adverse macroeconomic and financial shocks has been weakened. Relevant regional financial policies have thereby become very important.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2016. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Environment and Planning A. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Italy; regional; financialisation; financial systems convergence |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Aug 2016 11:02 |
Last Modified: | 11 Apr 2017 02:19 |
Published Version: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16664192 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0308518X16664192 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:103678 |