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Bianco, Magda; Giacomelli, Silvia; Rodano, Giacomo - Banca d'Italia - 2012

, regulation was satisfactory only in some sectors. The excessive number of activities in which some operators enjoyed exclusive … rights to provide services and restrictive regulation hindered competition in professional services. Growing awareness of the …

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Infrastructure and project financing in Italy: the (possible) role of the regulation

Giorgiantonio, Cristina; Giovanniello, Valentina - Banca d'Italia - 2009

There has been a significant increase in project financing in the public sector in Europe in the past decade, benefiting the implementation of infrastructure projects. In Italy, project financing is still much more limited than in such countries as Spain and the UK: the projects funded are...

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Taxi and limousine services after the Bersani reform: an investigation on main Italian cities

Bentivogli, Chiara - Banca d'Italia - 2008

Using data from a Bank of Italy survey, this paper analyzes the Italian taxi market and its recent changes. Local regulations are rather homogeneous, while there is a widespread disproportion, within municipal advisory committees, between the number of representatives of taxi drivers and that of...

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Service regulation and growth: evidence from OECD countries

Barone, Guglielmo; Cingano, Federico - Banca d'Italia - 2008

We study the effects of anti-competitive service regulation by examining whether OECD countries with less anti …-competitive regulation see a better economic performance of manufacturing industries using less-regulated services more intensively. Our … results indicate that lower service regulation translates into faster value added, productivity, and export growth of …

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Water services in Italy: implementation of the reform and efficiency of providers

Benvenuti, Michele; Gennari, Elena - Banca d'Italia - 2008

The paper investigates the organization of the Italian water sector in the light of the reforms of public utilities. The aim is to examine the degree of implementation of the water sector reform (the so-called Galli Law of 1994) and assess the performance of operators through a study of their...

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

Occhilupo, Roberta - Banca d'Italia - 2011

. The second reform improves the local one-stop-shops regulation (the SUAP, Sportello Unico per le Attivitï¿½ Produttive … regulatory barriers, rationalize regulation, and reorganize the public administration. …

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

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

We quantify the private returns and social costs of political connections exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset that combines matched employer-employee data for a representative sample of Italian firms with administrative archives on the universe of individuals appointed in local governments...

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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...

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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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