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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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Luigi Einaudi: teoria economica e legislazione sociale nel testo delle Lezioni (text in italian)

Baffigi, Alberto - Banca d'Italia - 2009

This essay focuses on the nexus between economic theory and social legislation, as dealt with by Luigi Einaudi in his Lezioni di politica sociale (1942). For this purpose, the conceptual and analytical model used in Einaudi's book is identified, which is based on three main premises 1) the...

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Broadband in Italy: an overview

Ciapanna, Emanuela; Sabbatini, Daniele - Banca d'Italia - 2008

High-speed Internet, or broadband, access is an essential infrastructure that has been proven to stimulate competition, productivity and growth and it is considered the engine of the so called knowledge-information economy. In this paper, we first provide a technical survey of the standard...

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Why do Banks Merge?.

Focarelli, D.; Panetta, F.; Salleo, C. - Banca d'Italia - 1999

The banking industry is consolidating at an accelerating pace, yet not conclusive results have emerged on the benefits of mergers and acquisitions. We analyze the Italian market, which is similar to other main European countries.

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The protection of industrial inventions: analysis of the regulation and policy evaluation.

Sabbatini, Daniele - Banca d'Italia - 2011

The Italian and European regulatory framework for patents would benefit from further improvements in order to foster dynamic competition between Italian firms. At the national level the exclusive allocation of the right to patent inventions to universities, rather than to researchers, would...

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The retail trade sector and the food industry in Italy

Viviano, Eliana; Gigio, Luciana Aimone; Ciapanna, Emanuela - Banca d'Italia - 2012

In this collection of papers we first analyze the evolution of the Italian food industry and the retail trade sector during the past decade (Chapters 1 and 2). Chapter 3 describes the structure of large retailers and buying groups in Italy. Chapter 4 proposes alternative measures of the degree...

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The role of regulation on entry: evidence from the Italian provinces

Bripi, Francesco - Banca d'Italia - 2013

This paper studies the effects of differences in local administrative burdens in Italy in the years preceding a major reform that sped up firm registration procedures. Combining regulatory data from a survey on Italian provinces before the reform (costs and time to start a business) with...

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