An extensive literature analysed the impact of upper tier transfers on spending behaviour of lower level governments finding evidence of a flypaper effect, an overreaction to varying grants from upper tiers. Our work seeks to supplement a dearth of evidence for the Italian case by focusing on...

This paper analyses the features of regional growth in Europe during economic integration based on two distinct approaches. The first one investigates the presence of convergence through Barro regressions. The second one assesses regional economic performance by measuring the dynamics of the...

<i> Per un federalismo equo e solidale: obiettivi e vincoli per la perequazione regionale in Italia </i> (di Gioavanna Messina) - ABSTRACT: In order to provide an incentive scheme for an efficient use of financial resources, the recent reform of regional public finance in Italy will substitute central...