This paper studies the effects of differences in local administrative burdens in Italy in the years preceding a major …

in Italy, and employ a stacked border diff-in-diff method. We compare the change in PV installations following the …

differences may therefore bias the estimated effects of regulation. This paper investigates the direction and the magnitude of … drives higher levels of unofficial activity, negative externalities and government regulation, thus inducing a positive … of regulation can be attributed to omitted variation in cultural traits …

We exploited two major reforms in the regulation of professional services implemented in Italy since the 2000s in order … strictness of regulation for 14 occupations and three different cohorts (i.e. before and after each reform). Then, using a … difference-in-differences strategy, we exploited the differential effect of regulation on the occupations considered compared …

We study the effects of anti-competitive service regulation by examining whether OECD countries with less anti …-competitive regulation see a better economic performance of manufacturing industries using less-regulated services more intensively. Our … results indicate that lower service regulation translates into faster value added, productivity, and export growth of …

response (or measurement) errors. In the case of Italy, the declining level of observed mobility is downward biased by the …