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The Italian Administrative System: Why a Source of Competitive Disadvantage?

Bianco, Magda; Napolitano, Giulio - Banca d'Italia - 2011

acts; the growth of administrative corruption; the creation of "public" agencies formally external to the administration …

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Memory for prices and the euro cash changeover: An analysis for cinema prices in Italy

Cestari, Vincenzo; Giovane, Paolo Del; Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia - Banca d'Italia - 2007

The question addressed by this study is whether consumers remember past prices correctly. We test Italian citizensï¿½ memory for cinema prices with questionnaires distributed to moviegoers. The analysis concentrates on the memory of pre-euro prices, but the recall for a more recent period is...

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Whatï¿½s behind ï¿½inflation perceptionsï¿½? A survey-based analysis of Italian consumers

Giovane, Paolo Del; Fabiani, Silvia; Sabbatini, Roberto - Banca d'Italia - 2008

This study investigates inflation perceptions in both qualitative and quantitative terms and their relationship with … measured by official statistics. Inflation perceptions are higher for women, the unemployed and less educated individuals, as … perceptions. In contrast, the characteristics of individual shopping activity do not result to be significant. All in all, these …

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Starting a business in Italy: recent reforms to cut time and costs

Occhilupo, Roberta - Banca d'Italia - 2011

Regulatory complexity and bureaucracy inefficiencies increase the time needed and the cost of starting a business and therefore reduce the competitiveness of a country. Since the early 1990s Italy, in the same way as other developed countries, has been trying to introduce some reforms to boost...

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Politicians at work. The private returns and social costs of political connections

Cingano, Federico; Pinotti, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2009

of corruption. These findings suggest that the gains in market power derive from public demand shifts towards politically …

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Median Voter Preferences, Central Bank Independence and Conservatism

Lippi, Francesco - Banca d'Italia - 1999

This paper studies how the independence and conservatism of a central bank relate to the structure and stability of the median voter preferences. This is done by means of a model of endogenous delegation in which an opportunistic policy-maker chooses the monetary regime (independence and...

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Median Voter Preferences, Central Bank Independence and Conservatis.

Lippi, F. - Banca d'Italia - 1999

This paper studies how the independence and conservatism of a central bankrelate to the structure and stability of median voter preferences. This is done by means of a model of endogenous delegation in which an opportunistic policy-maker chooses the monetary regime (independence and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005640902

Siting public facilities: a theoretical and empirical analysis of the Nimby syndrome in Italy

Occhilupo, Roberta; Palumbo, Giuliana; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2011

The paper discusses the economic problem and the institutional features underlying the Nimby syndrome, and illustrates preliminary empirical evidence for Italy. It argues that siting procedures taking local preferences into account should be preferred when the heterogeneity in preferences across...

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School cheating and social capital

Paccagnella, Marco; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2014

In this paper we propose and validate cheating in standardized tests as a new indirect measure of social capital. Given the low-stakes nature of most of the tests examined here, we interpret the widespread presence of cheating as a signal of limited trustin central education authorities....

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On the optimal size of local jurisdictions: new evidence from Italian provinces

Barone, Guglielmo - Banca d'Italia - 2011

This paper examines the creation of some new provinces in Italy in the 1990s to assess whether the reduction in the size of the local jurisdiction led to benefits in terms of local development, human capital and road quality, which are three public goods provided by the Italian provinces in...

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