Since the late eighties the Italian National Health System, in particular hospital care, has undergone deep reforms …. This paper evaluates the technical efficiency of Italian public hospitals in light of the main features of the hospital … composition of input endowment and the case-mix of hospital services provided. However a significant portion of variance is …

Over the last decade two reforms have affected the Italian hospital system, one introducing market mechanisms, the … institutional changes and describes the evolution of the structure and the activity of the hospital system, with a focus on the … differences between regions. It highlights the following: (1) the reduction in the number of hospitals and hospital beds and the …

hospital component's share of total health expenditure (in Italy above the OECD average). The higher cost of hospital services …This paper describes the main international trends in the demand for and supply and cost of hospital services in the … last decades. In almost all countries, including Italy, there has been a substantial reduction in the total length of …

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 …

The paper analyzes developments in bank lending in Italy during the financial crisis, assessing the relative …

structural nature. First, it examines the performance and the regulatory framework of real-estate investment funds in Italy …

preliminary empirical evidence for Italy. It argues that siting procedures taking local preferences into account should be … when the perceived risk associated with the facility is higher and more concentrated, and the communication between …