 Structural Asymmetries at the Roots of the Eurozone Crisis. What’s New for Industrial Policy in the EU?Alberto Botta No 1_2014, STOREPapers from Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell'Economia Politica - StorEP Abstract: In this paper, we analyze and try to measure productive and technological asymmetries between peripheral and central economies in the eurozone. We assess the effects such asymmetries will likely bring about on center-periphery divergence/convergence patterns, and derive some implications as to the design of future industrial policy at European level. We stress that future EU industrial policy should be regionally-focused and specifically target structural changes in the periphery as the main way to favor center-periphery convergence and avoid re-appearance of past external imbalances. To this end, a wide battery of industrial policy tools should be considered, ranging from subsidies and fiscal incentives to innovative firms, public financing of R&D efforts, sectoral policies and public procurements for home-produced goods. All in all, future EU industrial policy should be much more interventionist than it currently is, and dispose of much larger funds with respect to the present setting in order to effectively pursue both short-run stabilizing and long-run development goals. Keywords: Center-periphery structural symmetries; EU industrial policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hpo:wpaper:1_2014 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in STOREPapers from Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell'Economia Politica - StorEP Contact information at EDIRC. |
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