scispace - formally typeset
G

Gianpiero Torrisi

Researcher at University of Catania

Publications -  48
Citations -  1266

Gianpiero Torrisi is an academic researcher from University of Catania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Resilience (network) & Per capita income. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 45 publications receiving 923 citations. Previous affiliations of Gianpiero Torrisi include University of Portsmouth & Newcastle University.

Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

On the Methodological Framework of Composite Indices: A Review of the Issues of Weighting, Aggregation, and Robustness

TL;DR: In this article, the authors put composite indicators under the spotlight, examining the wide variety of methodological approaches in existence and offered a more recent outlook on the advances made in this field over the past years.
Journal ArticleDOI

Regional resilience in Italy: a very long-run analysis

TL;DR: Cellini et al. as discussed by the authors showed that only few shocks emerge to have specific impact effects differing across regions, while the recovery experience is ever spatially homogeneous Hence, it is difficult to discern genuine differences in regional resilience.
Journal ArticleDOI

Income inequality, decentralisation, and regional development in Western Europe

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between decentralization, regional economic development, and income inequality within regions was examined using multiplicative interaction models and regionally aggregated microeconomic data for more than 100 000 individuals in the European Union (EU).
Posted Content

In search of the ‘economic dividend’ of devolution: spatial disparities, spatial economic policy and decentralisation in the UK

TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-disciplinary approach utilizing institutionalist and quantitative methods was taken to determine the nature and extent of any economic dividend of devolution in the UK through a conceptual and empirical analysis of the relationships between spatial disparities, spatial economic policy and decentralisation.
Posted Content

Public infrastructure: definition, classification and measurement issues

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a helpful instrument to critically interpret the existing literature, zooms in on infrastructure definition and then reviews different categories of infrastructures utilised in literature, namely: personal, institutional, material, immaterial, economic, social, core and not-core, basic and complementary, network, nucleus, and territory infrastructure.