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Electoral cycle bias in the media coverage of corruption news

Le Moglie, Marco; Turati, Gilberto - 2018

corruption scandals in the Italian Regional Health Systems by two important national newspapers having opposite ideology, La … about corruption scandals involving left-wing politicians in the days right before the elections, while it reduces the … number of those about right episodes of corruption and without any political connection. Instead, for La Repubblica we do not …

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Fiscal Decentralization in Weak Institutional Environments : Evidence from Southern Italy

Beraldo, Sergio - 2012

gap by considering the municipalities belonging to three provinces in Southern Italy and proxying the presence of a weak …

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Money laundering as a financial sector crime : a new approach to measurement, with an application to Italy

Ardizzi, Guerino; Petraglia, Carmelo; Piacenza, Massimiliano - 2013

criminal activities. The paper develops a new approach to measure money laundering and then proposes an application to Italy, a …

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Measuring the Underground Economy with the Currency Demand Approach : A Reinterpretation of the Methodology, with an Application to Italy

Ardizzi, Guerino - 2012

We contribute to the debate on how to assess the size of the underground or shadow economy with a reinterpretation of the traditional Currency Demand Approach (CDA) à la Tanzi. We introduce three main innovations. First, we take as dependent variable in the money demand equation a direct...

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Money Laundering as a Financial Sector Crime - A New Approach to Measurement, with an Application to Italy

Ardizzi, Guerino - 2013

criminal activities. The paper develops a new approach to measure money laundering and then proposes an application to Italy, a …

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Life is Now! Time Discounting and Crime : Evidence from the Italian Regions (2002-2007)

Beraldo, Sergio; Caruso, Raul; Turati, Gilberto - 2011

This paper tests the relationship between time preferences and crime rates as posited by Davis (1988), whose theoretical analysis suggests that individuals’ attitude towards the future significantly affect their propensity to commit crime. Our empirical analysis is based on a panel of Italian...

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Life is Now! Time Preferences and Crime : Aggregate Evidence from the Italian Regions

Beraldo, Sergio; Caruso, Raul; Turati, Gilberto - 2013

This paper tests the relationship between time preferences and crime rates as posited by Davis (1988), whose theoretical analysis suggests that individuals’ attitude towards the future significantly affects their propensity to commit crime. Our empirical analysis is based on a panel of Italian...

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Stop Invasion! The Electoral Tipping Point in Anti-Immigrant Voting

Bordignon, Massimo - 2019

Why do anti-immigrant political parties have more success in areas that host fewer immigrants? Using regression discontinuity design, structural breaks search methods and data from a sample of Italian municipalities, we show that the relationship between the vote shares of anti-immigrant parties...

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Assessing the distributional effects of housing taxation in Italy : from the actual tax code to imputed rent

Pellegrino, Simone; Piacenza, Massimiliano; Turati, Gilberto - 2011

The presence of extensive housing subsidies characterises the current tax systems as inefficient. In this paper, we study whether inefficiency is the price to be paid to improve equity, by assessing the actual distributive impact of housing taxation on Italian households. We concentrate on the...

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Do market incentives for hospitals affect health and service utilization? : evidence from PPS-DRG tariffs in Italian regions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; De Paoli, Anna; Turati, Gilberto - 2016

We exploit variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of region-specific tariffs within a Prospective Pay System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health care services. We consider survey data for the years...

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