Fig. 17
From: Structural inequalities emerging from a large wire transfers network
Wire transfers total amount by (left) and between (right) regions: Northern bank accounts are on average richer than Southern bank accounts. Lombardy and Lazio emerge as the main economic centres of the country (confirmed by the official GDP per capita distribution, as in Fig. 3). We show also exchanges between regions: the width of each edge is proportional to the total amount transferred from one region to another, with directions to be read clockwise; each node’s size represents out-strength of the related region, and the geographical area it belongs to. Richer Northern regions are the most interconnected and wider flows are exchanged between Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna and Lazio (the only region from the Centre belonging to the “richest club”)