. This paper evaluates the technical efficiency of Italian public hospitals in light of the main features of the hospital …, such as the existence of hospital networks and competitiveness between providers, lead to higher levels of efficiency …Since the late eighties the Italian National Health System, in particular hospital care, has undergone deep reforms …

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 …

the performance of operators through a study of their financial indicators and a non-parametric efficiency analysis. The … information sources include two Bank of Italy surveys carried out in 2007 on local public water authorities and local water … risk-free interest rate. The non-parametric efficiency analysis does not reveal significant economies of scope and …

This paper estimates the elasticities of Italy's foreign tourism demand to relative prices, nominal and real exchange … rates using a dataset for tourism flows to Italy (and its macroregions) over the period 1997-2015. By separating total … number of arrivals). Southern Italy shows higher price elasticities than the rest of the country, signalling a higher …

The Bank of Italy conducts a sample survey on international tourism at the country's main border crossings for balance …-of-payments and analysis purposes. Each year a sample of international travellers (both foreigners in Italy and Italians abroad) who … have crossed Italy's borders is interviewed; counting operations are carried out in order to determine the size of the …

This paper analyses the response to the COVID-19 pandemic of inbound tourism to Italy looking at variation across … countries and across provinces. To this end, it uses weekly data on the number of foreign visitors in Italy from January 2019 …

This paper analyses the response to the COVID-19 pandemic of inbound tourism to Italy looking at variation across … countries and across provinces. To this end, it uses weekly data on the number of foreign visitors in Italy from January 2019 …

We study the distribution of housing wealth in Italy using data from a sample survey (the survey on household income …

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 …