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The Growth of the Service Sector and Demand for Services
Viviano, Eliana - 2016
. By comparing developments in demand for services in Italy, France, Germany and the US, I show that the contribution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998186
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Monetary Policy and Fiscal Dominance in Italy from the Early 1970s to the Adoption of the Euro : A Review
Gaiotti, Eugenio - 2013
This paper reviews the main literature and evidence on the relevance of fiscal dominance in Italy in the last part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087486
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Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Urban Areas : An Analysis of Localization and Productivity on Italian Data
Di Giacinto, Valter - 2019
We analyse the geographic localization and the productivity of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898819
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Climate Change and Winter Tourism : Evidence from Italy
Mariani, Gioia Maria; Scalise, Diego - 2023
Increasing temperatures and snow-scarce winter seasons challenge the winter tourism industry, one of the most weather-sensitive economic sectors. In this paper we assemble a novel dataset matching weather conditions and tourism flows in a sample of 39 Italian ski resorts in the last 20 years. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348489
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The Quality of Public Services in Italy
Bripi, Francesco - 2011
This paper provides a survey of a number of studies conducted in recent years, above all at the Bank of Italy, aiming … at assessing the quality and the efficiency of public services in Italy. We consider services provided by the central … disposal, water and gas supply, and childcare). The analysis shows in general that Italy lags behind noticeably compared with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125807
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Incentives to Local Public Service Provision : An Evaluation of Italy's Obiettivi di Servizio
Barone, Guglielmo - 2017
Set up by the Italian central government and implemented in the areas of the country that are lagging behind, Obiettivi di Servizio is an innovative scheme designed to encourage local authorities to reach given targets for public service provision in the areas of education, childcare and elderly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945290
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The Big Players in Italian Local Public Services - Constraints, Opportunities and Growth Strategies
Bianco, Magda - 2009
One of the objectives of the reforms and liberalization of the last 15 years in local public services was to reduce the traditional fragmentation of production. This was to be achieved through restructuring that reduced inefficiencies and made it more possible to exploit economies of scale,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012719108
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The Regulatory Reforms in Italian Local Public Services : An Overview and Some Lessons for the Future
Bianco, Magda; Sestito, Paolo - 2009
The paper summarizes the framework used in a research project on local public services carried out by Bank of Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210473
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Regulation and Competition on Local Public Utilities
Sabbatini, Daniele - 2009
This paper outlines the evolution of the regulatory framework for the supply of local public utilities, social and health services since the early nineties. That framework is rendered complex by frequent legislative reforms, the overlap of general rules and specific rules for some services, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210446
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Measuring Sectoral/Geographic Concentration Risk
Tola, Vincenzo - 2010
This article focuses on the application of the Pykhtin model to the Italian banking system to measure concentration risk by industry sector and geographic region. The proposed approach generalizes the portfolio model used in Pillar 1 for the calculation of the capital requirement, removing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135331