Geographical Indications and local development: the strength of territorial embeddedness

Riccardo Crescenzi, Fabrizio De Filippis (), Mara Giua and Cristina Vaquero Pineiro

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Abstract: Can Geographical Indications (GIs) promote local economic development in rural areas? This paper explores the impact of GIs that identify and endorse agri-food products which are strictly embedded within the territory from which they originate. Examining Italian wine protected by GIs through an innovative dataset and by means of propensity score matching and difference-in-differences models make it possible to compare the local economic development trajectories of rural municipalities afforded GIs with the correspondent dynamics of a counterfactual group of similar municipalities without GI status since 1951. Rural municipalities with GIs experience population growth and economic reorganization towards non-farming sectors, which frequently involve higher value-added activities.

Keywords: geographical Indications; rural development; EU policies; local development; propensity score matching; difference in differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O18 Q18 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2022-03-04
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Published in Regional Studies, 4, March, 2022, 56(3), pp. 381 - 393. ISSN: 0034-3404

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