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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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,...

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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 …

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The Economic and Financial Situation of Italian Non Financial Corporations : An International Comparison

De Socio, Antonio - 2011

The paper analyses the main differences in the financial structure of Italian and European non financial corporations in the 2004-2007 period, that is during the years before the financial crisis. The research is based on individual balance sheets of Amadeus (Analyse Major Databases from...

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The Crisis and Employment in Italy

Cingano, Federico - 2010

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 …

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