Despite accounting for a significant fraction of total litigation in Italy, small claims litigation has so far received little attention. Using a Ministry of Justice database that contains information disaggregated by subject matter, the paper provides a thorough description of the time trend...

The functioning of the Italian civil justice system is characterized by deep regional disparities: the length of legal proceedings is on average significantly higher in the South than in the rest of Italy. Using mainly a descriptive approach, this paper documents these differences and...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro documenta l'evoluzione del funzionamento della giustizia civile nel decennio in corso, evidenziando come le misure adottate negli ultimi anni abbiano contribuito a deflazionare il nuovo contenzioso e, quindi, il carico dei pendenti. Anche il numero dei procedimenti...

Italian Abstract: Sfruttando la disponibilità di nuovi dati, il lavoro (i) fornisce una valutazione più articolata, rispetto al passato, della performance dei tribunali civili e (ii) esamina i divari territoriali e il ruolo dei fattori di domanda e offerta nello spiegare le eterogeneità...

Regulatory complexity and bureaucracy inefficiencies increase the time needed and the cost of starting a business and therefore reduce the competitiveness of a country. Since the early 1990s Italy, in the same way as other developed countries, has been trying to introduce some reforms to boost...

This paper proposes policies to improve the environmental sustainability of distributed ledger technology (DLT). While the proof-of-work (PoW) consensus protocol requires large amounts of electricity, several DLT protocols consume much less, while still being sufficiently reliable and...

Italian Abstract: Le lunghe procedure esecutive di recupero del debito possono incidere negativamente sul sistema economico e finanziario, ad esempio nella gestione dei crediti deteriorati. Questo lavoro analizza le caratteristiche dei pignoramenti immobiliari in Italia e le determinanti della...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro fornisce una descrizione del funzionamento delle procedure esecutive immobiliari nel periodo 2014-21 e analizza gli effetti dei principali interventi adottati in quegli anni per migliorarne la gestione (D.L. 83/2015, D.L. 59/2016 e linee guida del Consiglio Superiore...

Insufficient competition remains a major obstacle to growth in Italy. The main culprits include the institutional environment and the regulations governing some economic sectors subject to market failures. As to the former, relative neglect of economic efficiency has produced an unstable and...

This work provides a descriptive assessment of regulated occupations in Italy and examines the impact of regulation on the labor market. First, we construct, on the basis of law provisions, a set of novel indicators measuring both the extensive and the intensive margin of regulation. We then...