The aim of this project is to study the economic impact of the Italian cooperative system within the context of the national economic fabric.
The main objective of the first phase will be the creation of a database structured around the macroeconomic variables needed to conduct an input/output analysis (gross production, intermediate consumption, value added and employee income).
This data will be used to create a “satellite account” (including cooperatives and their subsidiaries) of the cooperative sector at the national level. During the second phase of the project, the processed data will be used to quantify, within the Italian economic system, the following:
1) Cooperatives’ direct impact (cooperative production levels);
2) The output of non-cooperative type enterprisesthat factors indirectly into the cooperatives’ activity (goods and services that they acquire as inputs to their production process);
3) Induced production (goods and services produced by non-cooperative enterprises that are purchased and used by employees within the cooperative sys tem with the income received for their labour).
Coordinator: Eddi Fontanari, Insubria University
Status of the project: in progress, started in 2011
