pt. 1. Supporting social considerations via public procurement -- pt. 2. Lots, the economic and legal challenges of centralized procurement -- pt. 3. Innovation through innovative partnerships -- pt. 4. Green public procurement.

pt. 1. Competitive dialogue and contractual design fostering innovation and needs analysis -- pt. 2. Separation of selection and award criteria, including exclusion of reputation indicators like references to experience, performance and CVs from award criteria -- pt. 3. Re-tendering a contract...

This paper discusses several determinants of the differential between yields on Italian government securities and yields on foreign government securities. We concentrate on expectations of (at least partial) insolvency, tax factors and exchange rate expectations. The evidence suggests that most...

In this paper we try to construct an hypothesis as to why, as data seem to show, countries that adopt more "transparent procurement", as calculated by the share of tender advertised publicly, are also the ones where corruption is considered more pervasive. We describe an economy where in...

<i> Sull'irrilevanza dell'indipendenza delle Banche centrali </i> (di Gustavo Piga) - ABSTRACT: In this paper we take another look at the literature on central bank independence. We show that the representative-agent approach to monetary policy is seriously flawed and should not be trusted upon to...