This paper describes the fiscal structure of a community as an equilibrium of a non-cooperative game where members of different pressure groups - characterised by conflicting interests - compete to get distributive gains. Their interaction is regulated by a constitution which sets the electoral...

This paper provides a systematic study of the market for accountants in Italy during the period 1980-91. Firstly, it develops a comparison in the determinants of incomes of the two competing professions (Commercialisti and Ragionieri) focusing on entry as one of the main variables of interest to...

Optimal rules for the provision of collective factor of production have been quite extensively investigated since the seminal cotributions of Kaizuka (1965) and Sandro (1972), that may be regarded as the counterpart of the Samuelson's papers on the optimal allocation of public goods amoung...