Infrastructure and Performances of the Italian Economic System

This paper aims to analyse the consequences for the Italian economy of the recently started process of modernisation and extension of the country's infrastructure. The planned measures are expected to increase the competitiveness of Italian businesses and to improve quality of life. In the short term, investments in infrastructure will increase the construction sector’s production, and consequently activate income and employment multipliers. The Italian economic system being highly differentiated from a territorial viewpoint, the impact of new investments on its economic system has been analysed by means of a bi-regional model that accounts for the peculiar productive structure of the 20 Italian regions.