The paper investigates the organization of the Italian water sector in the light of the reforms of public utilities. The aim is to examine the degree of implementation of the water sector reform (the so-called Galli Law of 1994) and assess the performance of operators through a study of their...

Italian Abstract: In questo lavoro vengono esposti in sintesi i principali risultati relativi all'introduzione degli effetti rete nelle preferenze dei consumatori e le implicazioni di questi sulla dominanza di uno standard o la coesistenza di più standards. Gli storici risultati di Rohlfs...

Italian Abstract: La commistione tra indefiniti obblighi di servizio pubblico e obiettivi commerciali in capo ad un’unica emittente da un lato riduce gli stimoli all’efficienza di gestione, aumentando i costi di produzione del servizio pubblico, e dall’altro, ingessando l’assetto del...

The paper summarizes the framework used in a research project on local public services carried out by Bank of Italy researchers. It discusses motivations, characteristics, results and general lessons of the project, whose sector-specific results are detailed in individual papers. The project was...

The gas distribution in Italy is nowadays subjected to a deep process of deregulation, aimed to strengthen the competitive rules. In the same time, this industry is undergoing intensive regulation constraints, particularly in the definition of service prices. The mentioned deregulation process...

This paper aims to analyze the relevance of intangible assets, in particular linked to social re-sponsibility, with reference to performance measurement systems in local utilities companies. Other two aspects can be connected to the emerging role of intangibles for the performance measurement:...