This paper deals with the empirical research of cost efficiency and technological characteristics of the Health Service in Puglia over the period from 2004 to 2007. A review on the stochastic frontier model and the most recent analyses of the efficiency in the Italian regional health services is...

The fiscal (or financial) illusion refers to the mechanisms that affect the perception of the economic agent about the subjective evaluation of costs and benefits of public policies. This paper aims to contribute to a long and still ongoing discussion in the empirical literature regarding the...

The paper extends the analysis of the tax evasion considering one of the most relevant Non-Expected Utility Theory: the Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT) proposed by Kahneman and Tversky (1992). Particular attention is paid to compare the traditional results of Allingham - Sandmo's (1972) model...