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How do electoral systems affect fiscal policy? : evidence from state and local governments, 1890 to 2005
Funk, Patricia; Gathmann, Christina - 2010
Using a new data set on Swiss state and local governments from 1890 to today, we analyze how the adoption of proportional representation affects fiscal policy. We show that proportional systems shift spending toward broad goods (e.g. education and welfare benefits) but decrease spending on...
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Railways and the productivity gap in Italy : persistence and divergence after unification
Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015
The political unification of Italy in 1861 led to the establishment of a single market, by removing the trade barriers … same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large infrastructure project to spread railways, which were largely confined in … Northern Italy, all over the country. Using tools from spatial econometrics, we find that railways played a positive effect on …
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The political competition-economic performance puzzle : evidence from the OECD countries and the Italian regions
Padovano, Fabio (contributor); Ricciuti, Roberto (contributor) - 2008
Empirical tests of the theories on the relationship between political competition and economic performance generate a puzzle: data tend to support the theory at the lower levels of government, but not in panels of countries. We argue that the larger set of policy instruments reduces the tax...
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Interest groups and government spending in Italy, 1876 - 1913
Fiorino, Nadia; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2009
In the last two decades of the XIX century Italy became an industrial country. Historians maintain that this process … role of the interest groups in public expenditure decisions in Italy from 1876 to 1913. We argue that a proper indicator of …
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Pork, infrastructure and growth : evidence from the Italian railway expansion
Bonfatti, Roberto; Facchini, Giovanni; Tarasov, Alexander; … - 2021
This paper studies the role played by politics in shaping the Italian railway network, and its impact on long-run growth patterns. Examining a large state-planned railway expansion that took place during the second half of the 19th century in a recently unified country, we first study how both...
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Law, human capital and the emergence of free city-states in medieval Italy
Belloc, Marianna; Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto - 2017 - This version: November 6, 2017
In this paper, we study how the birth of the first universities in Italy affected the emergence of the Italian free …
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Strategic approaches to CO2 emissions : the case of the cement industry and of the chemical industry
Arjaliès, Diane Laure; Goubet, Cécile; Ponssard, … - 2014
The ability of companies to turn an environmental constraint into a source of strategic opportunities is a controversial topic in published research. The article, which is based on a comparative study of the CO2 emission reduction strategies implemented by the cement and chemical industries,...
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Firm-level productivity spillovers in China's chemical industry : a spatial Hausman-Taylor approach
Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - 2014
This paper assesses the role of intra-sectoral spillovers in total factor productivity across Chinese producers in the chemical industry. We use a rich panel data-set of 12,552 firms observed over the period 2004 - 2006 and model output by the firm as a function of skilled and unskilled labor,...
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The effect of extending the duration of eligibility in an Italian labour market programme for dismissed workers
Paggiaro, Adriano (contributor); Rettore, Enrico (contributor) - 2008
Liste di mobilità (LM) is an Italian labour market programme targeted to dismissed workers. There is a "passive" component granting monetary benefits to employees dismissed by firms larger than 15 employees, and an "active" component providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers...
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Organized crime and foreign direct investment : the Italian case
Daniele, Vittorio (contributor); Marani, Ugo (contributor) - 2008
be perceived as a signal of a socio-institutional environment unfavourable for FDI. -- FDI determinants ; Italy …
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