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Politicians at Work : The Private Returns and Social Costs of Political Connections
Cingano, Federico; Pinotti, Paolo - 2009
of corruption. These findings suggest that the gains in market power derive from public demand shifts towards politically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203712
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Discretion and Supplier Selection in Public Procurement
Baltrunaite, Audinga - 2018
Public procurement outcomes depend on the ability of the procuring agency to select high-performing suppliers. Should public administrations be granted more or less discretion in their decision making? Using Italian data on municipal public works tendered in the period 2009-2013, we study how a...
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Exposure to Media and Corruption Perceptions
Rizzica, Lucia - 2016
We analyse the impact of exposure to corruption news on individuals' perceptions about the extent of the phenomenon. To … this purpose, we take information on individuals' perceptions of the likelihood that corruption events may occur in … everyday life and combine it with a dataset containing the number of news items related to corruption that appeared on the …
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Measuring the Underground Economy with the Currency Demand Approach : A Reinterpretation of the Methodology, with an Application to Italy
Ardizzi, Guerino - 2012
We contribute to the debate on how to assess the size of the underground or shadow economy with a reinterpretation of the traditional Currency Demand Approach (CDA) à la Tanzi. We introduce three main innovations. First, we take as dependent variable in the money demand equation a direct...
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Rethinking the Crime Reducing Effect of Education? Mechanisms and Evidence from Regional Divides
Brilli, Ylenia - 2015
between different cohorts and at different ages that followed a reform that raised the school-leaving age in Italy. A 1 … percentage-point increase of the enrollment rate reduces adolescent crime by 1.3 per cent in the North of Italy but increases it …
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Down and Out in Italian Towns : Measuring the Impact of Economic Downturns on Crime
de Blasio, Guido - 2013
The paper investigates the effect of local economic conditions on crime. The study focuses on Italy's local labor …
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Parties, Institutions and Political Budget Cycles at the Municipal Level
Cioffi, Marika - 2012
We study the magnitude, the determinants and the electoral consequences of pre-electoral fiscal manipulation by incumbent politicians. To this aim, we build a dataset covering all the Italian municipalities. We document several facts. First, there is a clear political cycle in the path of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097326
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Legislators' Behaviour and Electoral Rules : Evidence from an Italian Reform
Albanese, Giuseppe - 2017
We explore how electoral rules and cultural traits (namely, the degree of civicness) interact in shaping elected officials' behaviour. We use a dataset that includes the expenditure proposals sponsored by members of the Italian Senate from 1993 to 2012 (as well as other individual and district...
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Law Enforcement and Political Participation : Italy, 1861-65
Accetturo, Antonio - 2017
hinges upon the causal impact of formal institutions on informal ones, by using a historical event from 19th century Italy …. This event was the Pica Law, which was introduced in 1863 to fight a surge of criminal violence in Southern Italy and to …
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How Sticky are Local Expenditures in Italy? Assessing the Relevance of the 'Flypaper Effect' Through Municipal Data
Gennari, Elena - 2012
An extensive literature analyses the impact of upper-tier transfers on the spending behaviour of lower level governments. According to the median voter framework, a transfer from the centre should act as a lump sum grant to residents and thus be spent by jurisdictions in the same proportion as...
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