Nonostante le modifiche alle prestazioni previdenziali pubbliche e la crescente consapevolezza che in futuro sarà necessario integrare le pensioni statali con risorse aggiuntive accumulate durante la carriera lavorativa, l’attitudine dei lavoratori italiani nei confronti della previdenza...

The scope of the supplementary pension funds is to provide workers with a satisfactory standard of living at retirement. An efficient and affordable system of pension funds is therefore an important factor to realize the workers’ aims of maximizing the value of their pension wealth. A...

<i> Relazioni triangolari nell’economia dei servizi pubblici </i> (di Daniele Archibugi, Giuseppe Ciccarone, Mauro Marè, Bernardo Pizzetti e Flaminia Violati) - ABSTRACT: The restructuring of public services is critically re-examined in this paper. It is argued that the issue of public versus...

This paper provides a simple model to explain effect of political alignment between different tiers of government on policy choices and election outcomes. We derive precise predictions that, as long as voters attribute most of the credit for providing public goods to the local government: (i)...

This paper argues that high political competition does not necessarily induce policy makers to perform better as previous research has shown. We develop a political economy model and we show that when political competition is tight, and elected politicians can rely on more tax instruments, they...

This paper provides a simple political agency model to explain the effect of political alignment between different tiers of government on intergovernmental grants and election outcomes. Key features of the model are: (i) rational voters interpret public good provision as a signal of incumbent...

This paper provides a simple political agency model to explain the effect of political alignment between different tiers of government on intergovernmental grants and election outcomes. Key features of the model are: (i) rational voters interpret public good provision as a signal of incumbent...

This paper provides a simple political agency model to explain the effect of political alignment between different tiers of government on intergovernmental grants and election outcomes. Key features of the model are: (i) rational voters interpret public good provision as a signal of incumbent...