Il 2012 Š il primo anno di introduzione dell'IMU, la principale nuova imposta prevista dal D.L. 23/2011 sul federalismo municipale. In questo lavoro si cerca di valutare quanto la nuova imposta colga effettivamente l'obiettivo dichiarato del federalismo: aumentare l'autonomia fiscale e...

We propose a theoretical model to analyze the provision of environmental protection activities with positive interregional externalities in order to verify whether this kind of policy is better accomplished through centralized policymaking, which implies a coordinated solution among local...

Property taxation can be used in a Pigouvian way to raise the costs of environment and decrease land use consumption for the benefit of enviromental protection. However, in presence of a growing shortage of funding over time, local governments can use property taxation in order to ‘fill the...

This paper evaluates the impact of beauty on employability, stressing the first stage of the hiring process. In particular, we studied the Italian labor market in order to ascertain whether there exists a preference for attractive applicants according to gender and racial characteristics. The...

This paper presents a general equilibrium model where rms producing the consumption good in an oligopolistic market purchase advertising in order to increase their market shares. The model aims to evaluate the general equilibrium consequences of such a behaviour. It analyses the eects of a...

We introduce an efficiency wage mechanism into an innovation-driven growth model. Due to asymmetric information problems the labour market is segmented and homogeneous workers may be employed either in the non-competitive intermediate sector or in the competitive research sector. We analyse the...

The EU Directive 2000/60/EC, also known as the “Framework directive in the field of water policy”, stresses the importance of water in human development processes and states that EU members should coordinate water policies towards a sustainable use of this resource; hence, water has a...

Il 2012 Š il primo anno di introduzione della principale nuova imposta prevista dal D.L. 23/2011 sul federalismo municipale. Com'Š noto, infatti, l'introduzione dell'IMU, prevista a partire dal 2014, Š stata anticipata dal cosiddetto decreto Salva Italia. Tale anticipazione, tuttavia si Š...