The objective of this article is to assess labour income and employment effects in Romania coming from development policies defined in the proposed 2007-09 EU accession financial package. The methodology used is based on a multiregional I-O model, which allows capturing specificities and...

Il presente lavoro si propone di approfondire le relazioni tra crescita economica e dinamica demografica, al centro di un intenso dibattito in letteratura. In particolare si cerca di evidenziare il ruolo svolto dai fattori demografici nella crescita economica. L'interesse Š rivolto al caso...

Il presente lavoro vuole approfondire le relazioni tra crescita economica e dinamica demografica cercando in particolare di evidenziare l'influsso dei fattori demografici sull'andamento dell'economia. L'approccio scelto Š di tipo applicato: si procede ad un'analisi cross country tramite...

The paper investigates the effects produced by the electoral system on expenditure composition by exploring the case of Italian regions over the period 1986-2009. Empirical analysis shows that the regional current expenditure transfers distributed to families and firms significantly decrease...

[ENG] This paper examines the structural characteristics of Unione di Comuni, a kind of local councils partnership recently supported by Italian law, trying to assess which factors most influenced the choice of functions and services to being managed associatively. It also analyzes the impact of...

This paper seeks for public spending interdependence among jurisdictions within some Italian local councils. We find significant positive interaction among spending of neighboring local councils both at the level of total expenditure and also for different subcategories. However, this result...

The aim of this paper is to conduct an empirical investigation regarding the presence of political and informative trends in tax setting of local governments as an alternative theoretical explanation to the tax mimick-ing. Both phenomena have been tested on municipalities' cross-sectional data...

[ENGLISH] The objective of the paper is to evaluate theoretically the effects of the assignment of redistribution function to lower levels of government on individuals' welfare, focusing on the level of national and local income inequality. First studies on fiscal federalism suggested negative...