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Dr. Silvia Cerisola
Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milan, 20133 Milan, Italy

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Silvia Cerisola is Assistant Professor of Regional and Urban Economics at Politecnico di Milano. Her main research interest is in the impact of cultural heritage and creativity on local economic development, although her scientific works also include studies on regional disparities and regional competitiveness. She holds a Ph.D. in Architecture, Built environment and Construction engineering from Politecnico di Milano and an M.Sc. in Economics and Social Science and a BA in Management of Public Admnistration and International Institutions, both from Bocconi University (Milan).

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Journal article
Published: 25 June 2021 in Sustainability
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Following the hype that has been given to culture and creativity as triggers and enhancers of local economic performance in the last 20 years, this work originally contributes to the literature with the objective of assessing the impact of cultural and creative cities (CCCs) on the economic output of their regions. In this sense, the cultural and creative character of cities is considered a strategic strength and opportunity that can spillover, favoring the economic system of the entire regions in which the cities are located. Through an innovative methodology that exploits a regional production function estimated by a panel fixed effects model, the effect of cities’ cultural vibrancy and creative economy on the output of their regions is econometrically explored. The data source is the Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor (CCCM) provided by the JRC, which also allows the investigation of the possible role played by the enabling environment in catalyzing the action of cultural vibrancy and creative economy. The results are thoroughly examined: especially through cultural vibrancy, CCCs strategically support the output of their region. This is particularly the case when local context conditions—such as human capital and education, openness, tolerance and trust, and quality of governance—catalyze their effect. Overall, CCCs contribute to feeding a long-term self-supporting system, interpreted according to a holistic conception that includes economic, social, cultural, and environmental domains.

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Silvia Cerisola; Elisa Panzera. Cultural and Creative Cities and Regional Economic Efficiency: Context Conditions as Catalyzers of Cultural Vibrancy and Creative Economy. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7150 .

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Silvia Cerisola, Elisa Panzera. Cultural and Creative Cities and Regional Economic Efficiency: Context Conditions as Catalyzers of Cultural Vibrancy and Creative Economy. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (13):7150.

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Silvia Cerisola; Elisa Panzera. 2021. "Cultural and Creative Cities and Regional Economic Efficiency: Context Conditions as Catalyzers of Cultural Vibrancy and Creative Economy." Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7150.

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Published: 01 October 2020 in European Planning Studies
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Roberta Capello; Silvia Cerisola. Catching-up and regional disparities: a resource-allocation approach. European Planning Studies 2020, 29, 94 -116.

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Roberta Capello, Silvia Cerisola. Catching-up and regional disparities: a resource-allocation approach. European Planning Studies. 2020; 29 (1):94-116.

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Roberta Capello; Silvia Cerisola. 2020. "Catching-up and regional disparities: a resource-allocation approach." European Planning Studies 29, no. 1: 94-116.

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Published: 11 August 2020 in Growth and Change
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The interest toward the supposed trade‐off between efficiency and equity has strongly come back to the fore within the European Union (EU) after the 2008 economic crisis. The worsening of spatial economic imbalances, in fact, opened again the debate whether the European institutions should focus their budget allocations on core areas or on peripheral areas of less developed countries, following concentrated or spatially distributed normative actions. This paper addresses the question by applying an original method to assess the relative importance of urban efficiency with respect to spatially distributed resource endowments in affecting regional inequality. An innovative two‐step procedure is applied: that first estimates a regional production function and then makes use of its output through a simulation to assess efficiency versus spatially even distribution of resources on the improvement of regional cohesion. The results show that urban efficiency gains play a relatively minor role in affecting regional disparities if compared with a spatially even distribution of production factors.

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Roberta Capello; Silvia Cerisola. Concentrated versus diffused growth assets: agglomeration economies and regional cohesion. Growth and Change 2020, 51, 1440 -1453.

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Roberta Capello, Silvia Cerisola. Concentrated versus diffused growth assets: agglomeration economies and regional cohesion. Growth and Change. 2020; 51 (4):1440-1453.

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Roberta Capello; Silvia Cerisola. 2020. "Concentrated versus diffused growth assets: agglomeration economies and regional cohesion." Growth and Change 51, no. 4: 1440-1453.

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Published: 14 March 2020 in Economic Geography
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A thorough investigation of the relationship between the deepening and the widening processes of EU integration and the historic evolution of regional disparities is missing in the related vast existing inductive literature. This usually focuses on EU15 countries or Central and Eastern European Countries, generally involves relatively short and recent periods, and takes into consideration just one institutional change at a time, if any. This article aims at filling these gaps by providing a theoretical interpretative framework on the effects of each institutional change on inter- and intranational disparities, and by verifying the fitness of the theoretical expectations with a longitudinal trend analysis and with an econometric event analysis. Theory was overall right in claiming that widening and deepening of the EU would have exacerbated intraregional disparities. Counteracting such tendency could look like fighting gravity, since disparities continuously reappear in different forms and spatial levels, transmitting a sense of unescapable normality.

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Roberto Camagni; Roberta Capello; Silvia Cerisola; Ugo Fratesi. Fighting Gravity: Institutional Changes and Regional Disparities in the EU. Economic Geography 2020, 96, 108 -136.

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Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Silvia Cerisola, Ugo Fratesi. Fighting Gravity: Institutional Changes and Regional Disparities in the EU. Economic Geography. 2020; 96 (2):108-136.

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Roberto Camagni; Roberta Capello; Silvia Cerisola; Ugo Fratesi. 2020. "Fighting Gravity: Institutional Changes and Regional Disparities in the EU." Economic Geography 96, no. 2: 108-136.

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Published: 10 September 2019 in Regional Studies
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The European Union has been adopting so-called macro-regional strategies since 2009. Its final goal is to develop an integrated framework to address common challenges and opportunities of particular transnational areas. This paper aims to identify such growth opportunities in the most recently established macro-area: the European Union Strategy for the Alpine Region (EUSALP). It does so by identifying how to increase efficiency in the exploitation of growth assets, taking into consideration that EUSALP is characterized by a wide productive diversity. This is defined in terms of regional development patterns, conceptualized and empirically detected making use of an original database. The results show that EUSALP can gain greater competitiveness through a better use of existing resources, especially in the touristic development pattern. Further research on cooperation and integration policies for a more effective exploitation of existing abundant resources is suggested.

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Roberta Capello; Silvia Cerisola. Development patterns and their sources of competitiveness in the EUSALP macro-region. Regional Studies 2019, 54, 1043 -1056.

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Roberta Capello, Silvia Cerisola. Development patterns and their sources of competitiveness in the EUSALP macro-region. Regional Studies. 2019; 54 (8):1043-1056.

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Roberta Capello; Silvia Cerisola. 2019. "Development patterns and their sources of competitiveness in the EUSALP macro-region." Regional Studies 54, no. 8: 1043-1056.

Articles
Published: 07 February 2019 in European Planning Studies
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In the last 10 years, the European Union has devoted specific attention and resources to the establishment of macro-regional strategies, with the objective of joining together transnational areas to favour the effective and organized management of common challenges. In most macro-regions, however, the identification of strategies to increase competitiveness is a rather difficult task, given the extreme internal diversity in economic activities. Focusing on the youngest macro-regional strategy – EUSALP – this paper highlights the specific combinations of territorial growth assets that allow to overcome the inefficient use of local abundant strategic resources, in line with a ‘balanced development’ approach. The results, obtained on the basis of a database gathered at NUTS3 level, are useful to provide policy suggestions to support the competitiveness of EUSALP through synergies and complementarities, according to a cooperation networks perspective.

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Roberta Capello; Silvia Cerisola. Competitiveness through integration in the European Union Strategy for the Alpine Region: a ‘balanced development’ approach. European Planning Studies 2019, 27, 1013 -1034.

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Roberta Capello, Silvia Cerisola. Competitiveness through integration in the European Union Strategy for the Alpine Region: a ‘balanced development’ approach. European Planning Studies. 2019; 27 (5):1013-1034.

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Roberta Capello; Silvia Cerisola. 2019. "Competitiveness through integration in the European Union Strategy for the Alpine Region: a ‘balanced development’ approach." European Planning Studies 27, no. 5: 1013-1034.

Original article
Published: 27 July 2018 in Journal of Cultural Economics
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The importance of culture, history, religion, and identity in the potential of any territory to develop is now generally accepted. Place and culture are indeed persistently intertwined. Moreover, the potentially positive impact of cultural heritage on economic development has gained more and more attention throughout different disciplines. Such impact, however, is often just assumed or thought to occur exclusively through cultural tourism, which is in fact both conceptually and empirically able to explain only partially such relationship. This paper enters this debate by elaborating conceptually and empirically on the idea that creativity—possibly expressed according to different patterns—can play a mediating role, explaining the local capability to exploit cultural heritage for economic purposes. In order to empirically address this issue, the Italian provinces (NUTS3 level) are exploited as the units of analysis and the whole process (from cultural heritage to development through creativity) is econometrically tested by a structural equation model.

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Silvia Cerisola. A new perspective on the cultural heritage–development nexus: the role of creativity. Journal of Cultural Economics 2018, 43, 21 -56.

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Silvia Cerisola. A new perspective on the cultural heritage–development nexus: the role of creativity. Journal of Cultural Economics. 2018; 43 (1):21-56.

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Silvia Cerisola. 2018. "A new perspective on the cultural heritage–development nexus: the role of creativity." Journal of Cultural Economics 43, no. 1: 21-56.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2017 in Journal of Cultural Economics
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Silvia Cerisola. Multiple creative talents and their determinants at the local level. Journal of Cultural Economics 2017, 42, 243 -269.

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Silvia Cerisola. Multiple creative talents and their determinants at the local level. Journal of Cultural Economics. 2017; 42 (2):243-269.

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Silvia Cerisola. 2017. "Multiple creative talents and their determinants at the local level." Journal of Cultural Economics 42, no. 2: 243-269.

Journal article
Published: 06 September 2016 in Papers in Regional Science
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The role of creativity in local economic development has been widely discussed. The evidence on this linkage is, however, mixed. This work tries to highlight the nexus by taking into consideration a new aspect, that is, the multidimensional nature of creativity and the potential synergic and complementary effects of creative talents of different nature. The merging of talents is, indeed, a source of original, complex and synergic ideas which are at the basis of the positive relation between creativity and local development. The work addresses this issue conceptually and proves the expectations through an empirical application on Italian provinces (NUTS 3).

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Silvia Cerisola. Creativity and local economic development: The role of synergy among different talents. Papers in Regional Science 2016, 97, 199 -215.

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Silvia Cerisola. Creativity and local economic development: The role of synergy among different talents. Papers in Regional Science. 2016; 97 (2):199-215.

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Silvia Cerisola. 2016. "Creativity and local economic development: The role of synergy among different talents." Papers in Regional Science 97, no. 2: 199-215.