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What Can be Learned from Continental Europe's Largest Privatisation Program? – Italy 1993 to 2003
Goldstein, Andrea - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 1, pp. 40-48
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Hardening a soft budget constraint through upward devolution to a supranational institution: The case of Italian state-owned firms and the European Union
Bertero, Elisabetta; Rondi, Laura - 2002
operating in a soft budget regime. The methodology is a case study of the shift in budget regime in Italy in the late 1980s. The …
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Italy’s Privatization Process and Its Implications for China
Bortolotti, Bernardo - 2005
This report provides an overview of the causes and consequences of the Italian State-owned Enterprises (SOE) reform process. Particularly, it analyzes the symbiotic link between share issue privatization (SIP), i.e. privatization in public equity markets, and financial market development, and...
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The relationship among innovative output, productivity, and profitability: a test comparing USPTO and EPO data
Santarelli, Enrico; Lotti, Francesca - 2007
biotechnology industry in Italy, whose firms, by definition, have Intellectual Property (IP) activities in their portfolios. For …
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The effects of privatization and consolidation on bank productivity: comparative evidence from Italy and Germany
Fiorentino, Elisabetta; Vincenzo, Alessio De; Heid, Frank; … - 2009
directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state …
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Dynamic and distributional effects of environmental revenue recycling schemes: Simulations with a general equilibrium model of the Italian economy
Roson, Roberto - 2002
A dynamic general equilibrium model of the Italian economy is used to assess the impact of carbon taxation (or auctioned carbon permits), where additional revenue is used to cut either existing taxes on labour or on capital income. Simulation results do not support the existence of the so-called...
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Labor taxes, wage setting and the relative wage effect
Brunello, Giorgio; Parisi, Maria Luisa; Sonedda, Daniela - 2002
Public finance solutions to high unemployment in Europe have often been advocated during the past years. With unemployment concentrated among the young and unskilled, it has been suggested that the reduction of social security contributions for low wage earnings, financed by a carbon tax, could...
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The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in Italy
de Dominicis, Laura; Arbia, Giuseppe; de Groot, Henri L.F. - 2007
to take spatial dependence into account. Using data for Italy for the years 1991 and 2001, we apply exploratory spatial …
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The Italian block of the ESCB multi-country model
Angelini, Elena; D’Agostino, Antonello; McAdam, Peter - 2006
This paper documents the structure, estimation and simulation properties of the Italian block of the ESCB-multi-country model (MCM). The model is used regularly as an input into Eurosystem projection exercises and, to a lesser extent, in simulation analysis. The specification of the Italian...
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Does it pay to have the euro? Italy’s politics and financial markets under the lira and the euro
Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2009
’s prosperity. The paper focuses on olitical events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in … 1999 has helped insulate Italy’s financial markets from the adverse consequences of its traditionally unstable political … system. We find that important political events have exerted a statistically and economically significant effect on Italy …
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