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Money laundering as a financial sector crime : a new approach to measurement, with an application to Italy

Ardizzi, Guerino; Petraglia, Carmelo; Piacenza, Massimiliano - 2013

criminal activities. The paper develops a new approach to measure money laundering and then proposes an application to Italy, a …

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On time and money donations

Cappellari, Lorenzo (contributor); … - 2007

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Assessing the distributional effects of housing taxation in Italy : from the actual tax code to imputed rent

Pellegrino, Simone; Piacenza, Massimiliano; Turati, Gilberto - 2011

The presence of extensive housing subsidies characterises the current tax systems as inefficient. In this paper, we study whether inefficiency is the price to be paid to improve equity, by assessing the actual distributive impact of housing taxation on Italian households. We concentrate on the...

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Do market incentives for hospitals affect health and service utilization? : evidence from PPS-DRG tariffs in Italian regions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; De Paoli, Anna; Turati, Gilberto - 2016

We exploit variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of region-specific tariffs within a Prospective Pay System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health care services. We consider survey data for the years...

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Bailing out expectations and health expenditure in Italy

Bordignon, Massimo; Turati, Gilberto - 2003

In this paper we propose a simple model of bailing out that closely describes the intergovernmental relationships between the Central government and the regional governments in the Italian public health care sector. The theoretical model suggests that bail out expectations by regions can be...

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Divided we survive? : multi-level governance and policy uncertainty during the first wave of Covid-19

Angelici, Marta; Berta, Paolo; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2021

We compare health system responses to the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain. In both countries … first wave, leaving more autonomy to regional governments in Italy than in Spain. Upon documenting national and regional … autonomy, and fostering experimentation and local solutions explains the gap between Italy and Spain in the first wave of the …

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Decentralization, vertical fiscal imbalance, and political selection

Bordignon, Massimo; Gamalerio, Matteo; Turati, Gilberto - 2013

In a career-concern model of politics with endogenous candidacy and different types of politicians, following a decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of autonomous resources. As an effect, consumer welfare...

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