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Fantini, Paolo; Giacomelli, Silvia; Palumbo, Giuliana; … - Banca d'Italia - 2011

Despite accounting for a significant fraction of total litigation in Italy, small claims litigation has so far received … provides a thorough description of the time trend and geographical distribution of small claims litigation in Italy in the … period 2001-2008. Further, it empirically evaluates the impact of different socio-economic variables on litigation. We find …

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Too many lawyers? Litigation in Italian civil courts

Carmignani, Amanda; Giacomelli, Silvia - Banca d'Italia - 2010

In this paper we investigate the relationship between the number of lawyers and civil litigation across Italian … and litigation. We then employ a 2SLS approach to verify the existence of a causal effect. We use as an exogenous source … results show that the number of lawyers has a positive effect on litigation and that the magnitude of this effect is large. …

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The effect of organized crime on public funds

Barone, Guglielmo; Narciso, Gaia - Banca d'Italia - 2013

Organized crime is widely regarded as damaging to the economy, to say nothing of peopleï¿½s lives. Yet little is known about the mechanism at work. This paper helps fill the gap by analyzing the impact of organized crime on the allocation of public subsidies to businesses. We assemble an...

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The economic costs of organized crime: evidence from southern Italy

Pinotti, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2012

I examine the post-war economic development of two regions in southern Italy exposed to mafia activity after the 1970s and apply synthetic control methods to estimate their counterfactual economic performance in the absence of organized crime. The synthetic control is a weighted average of other...

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Firm size and judicial efficiency: evidence from the neighbour's court

Giacomelli, Silvia; Menon, Carlo - Banca d'Italia - 2013

We investigate the causal relationship between judicial efficiency and firm size across Italian municipalities exploiting spatial discontinuities in court jurisdictions for identification. The estimated coefficients suggest that the reduction of the length of civil proceedings could exert, all...

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Funzionamento della giustizia civile e struttura finanziaria delle imprese: il ruolo del credito commerciale

Carmignani, Amanda - Banca d'Italia - 2004

This paper empirically investigates the role of the efficiency of judicial enforcement in shaping firmsï¿½ financial structure, by focusing on the choice between trade credit and alternative external sources. Suppliers have an advantage over other short-term lenders in enforcing credit...

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

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

The Italian administrative system is currently perceived as one of the main obstacles to a higher growth of the productive system. We argue that some causes of this ineffectiveness are deeply rooted and date back at the unification: a missing strong administrative tradition; an (excessive)...

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Convergence among Italian Regions, 1861-2011

Iuzzolino, Giovanni; Pellegrini, Guido; Viesti, Gianfranco - Banca d'Italia - 2011

In 150 years, the trends in regional disparities in economic development within Italy have differed depending on whether they are gauged by longitude or by latitude. The disparities between western and eastern regions first widened and then closed; the North-South gap, by contrast, remains the...

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The geography of income inequality in Italy

Acciari, Paolo; Mocetti, Sauro - Banca d'Italia - 2013

This paper exploits the tax records to analyze the geography of income inequality in Italy. In 2011, the Gini coefficient, the most common measure of inequality, was 40 per cent at national level. In the South it was 3 percentage points higher than in the Centre-North, mainly because of a...

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Learning divides across the Italian regions: Some evidence from national and international surveys

Montanaro, Pasqualino - Banca d'Italia - 2008

Student performance has been tested by various surveys at the international level in recent years, using different aims and methodologies. On the basis of a comparative analysis, this paper aims to describe the differences in performance between Italian regions, subjects and ages or grades. All...

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