Energy Supply And Economic Development In Italy: The Role Of The State-Owned Companies

PierAngelo Toninelli ()

No 146, Working Papers from University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics

Abstract: The paper focuses on the role played by state-owned enterprise in the energy history and policy in Italy. A fundamental issue of the economic history of the country is if and how scarcity of raw materials, and particularly of primary energy sources, affected its modern economic growth. As different as they are, answers to such a question cannot but recognize the role played in the long run by direct state intervention: either in order to reduce the energy dependence of the country from abroad, or to guarantee the supply of fuel and oil products to the Italian market, particularly after the 1973 oil crisis.

Keywords: Italy; energy; history; state-intervention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N43 Q43 Q48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2008-10, Revised 2008-10
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