2015/03/31 by Roy Cerqueti, Marcel Ausloos
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Environmental Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Cult #Culture, Economy, and Development Studies #Economic geography #Economic inequality #Economics #Economy #Geography #Gini coefficient #History #Inequality #Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues #Law #Mathematics #Political science #Regional science #Sociology #Statistical analysis #Statistics #Theil index #Urban Planning and Valuation #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.soscij.2015.03.004
11 pages, 2 Tables, 18 references; accepted for publication in Social Science Journal; new version correcting misprints in title and abstract
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This paper considers joining the economical characteristics of Italian cities with a relevant sociological aspect of the Catholic saints. More than in other countries, a high percentage of Italian cities are toponyms coming from the name of specific saints (hagiotoponym). The link with Italian religious views is distinct. The statistical analysis of the economic contributions that each hagiotoponym city provides to the Italian GDP is considered. Such an analysis is also based on the comparison with Italian data and is considered with the Theil, Gini, and Herfindahl-Hirschman indices. It is obtained that hagiotoponym cities represent a proxy of the overall Italian reality of medium-sized cities in the case of outliers removal.