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Electoral Rules and Municipal Finances: Evidence From Two Reforms in Italy
Bordignon, Massimo; Turati, Gilberto - In: CESifo DICE Report 12 (2014) 1, pp. 24-28
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908031
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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 - CESifo - 2013
criminal activities. The paper develops a new approach to measure money laundering and then proposes an application to Italy, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877717
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Life is now! Time preferences and crime: Aggregate evidence from the Italian regions
Beraldo, Sergio; Caruso, Raul; Turati, Gilberto - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 47 (2013) C, pp. 73-81
This paper tests the relationship between time preferences and crime rates as posited by Davis (1988), whose theoretical analysis suggests that individuals’ attitude towards the future significantly affects their propensity to commit crime. Our empirical analysis is based on a panel of Italian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730079
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L’economia non osservata fra evasione e crimine: una rivisitazione del Currency Demand Approach con una applicazione al contesto italiano
Ardizzi, Guerino; Petraglia, Carmelo; Piacenza, Massimiliano - In: Rivista di Politica Economica (2013) 1, pp. 229-269
This study contributes to the debate on estimating the size of underground economy, by proposing a reinterpretation of the Currency Demand Approach (CDA). Three main innovations are introduced. First, a direct measure of cash transactions is taken as dependent variable in the money demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699415
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L’economia non osservata fra evasione e crimine: una rivisitazione del Currency Demand Approach con una applicazione al contesto italiano
Ardizzi, Guerino; Petraglia, Carmelo; Piacenza, Massimiliano - In: Rivista di Politica Economica (2013) 1, pp. 229-269
This study contributes to the debate on estimating the size of underground economy, by proposing a reinterpretation of the Currency Demand Approach (CDA). Three main innovations are introduced. First, a direct measure of cash transactions is taken as dependent variable in the money demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700780
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Life is Now! Time Discounting and Crime: Aggregate Evidence from the Italian Regions (2002-2007)
Beraldo, Sergio; Caruso, Raul; Turati, Gilberto - Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e … - 2012
This paper tests the relationship between time preferences and crime rates as posited by Davis (1988), whose theoretical analysis suggests that individuals’ attitude towards the future significantly affect their propensity to commit crime. Our empirical analysis is based on a panel of Italian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583825
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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 - Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e … - 2013
activities. The paper develops a new approach to measure money laundering and then proposes an application to Italy, a country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010826194
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Measuring the underground economy with the currency demand approach: a reinterpretation of the methodology, with an application to Italy
Ardizzi, Guerino; Petraglia, Carmelo; Piacenza, Massimiliano - Banca d'Italia - 2012
We contribute to the debate on how to assess the size of the underground or shadow economy with a reinterpretation of the traditional Currency Demand Approach (CDA) � la Tanzi. We introduce three main innovations. First, we take as dependent variable in the money demand equation a direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099617
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Life is now! Time Preferences and Crime: Aggregate Evidence from the Italian Regions
Beraldo, Sergio; Caruso, Raul; Turati, Gilberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper tests the relationship between time preferences and crime rates as posited by Davis (1988), whose theoretical analysis suggests that individuals’ attitude towards the future significantly affects their propensity to commit crime. Our empirical analysis is based on a panel of Italian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257738
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Decentralization, Vertical Fiscal Imbalance, and Political Selection
Bordignon, Massimo; Gamalerio, Matteo; Turati, Gilberto - CESifo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706006