This paper evaluates the performance of Italian local public enterprises (LPEs) with respect to their private sector … performance gap depend on the ownership structure (the share held by the public) or on the market structure (the degree of … competition in the sector)?; iii) which are the main determinants of LPEs' performance in terms of productivity? The main findings …

We provide an in-depth analysis of Italy's export performance relative to the other main euro-area countries over the … last two decades, using both macro and micro data. We argue that the relatively unsatisfactory performance of Italian goods …

We explore the role of ownership, governance and management characteristics as potential drivers of the performance … gaps between firms located in the Centre and North and in the South of Italy. First, we document that southern firms are … practices and advanced technology. Second, we examine to what extent these differences account for the performance gap between …

dynamics. In Italy, in the case of a banking merger or acquisition, the antitrust authorities can require the sale of bank …

construct new objective measures of local government performance. After showing that the new indicators are well correlated with … alternative measures of governments quality, we study their determinants. We find that a better performance is mainly associated …

The fall in employment and the increase in unemployment rates in Italy in 2009 were fairly modest, given the sharp drop … drop in participation in the South (the discouragement effect). The results of the Bank of Italy's Survey of Industrial and …

of interest. Secondly, we assess the governance of closed and open pension funds in Italy by analyzing their bylaws and …

In this paper we focus on tenant rents in Italy and compare results from several methods for the rent dynamic …