The Commissioner for the Italian spending review has presented his program to finalize a revision of expenditure meant to eliminate waste, inefficiencies and perks in Italian public spending. The control of the public expenditure dynamics and reduction of inefficiencies has become an emergency...

La relazione presenta nella Parte I un quadro della struttura, sviluppo e crescita della spesa pubblica in Italia a partire dal 1951 nelle sue principali componenti funzionali e per livello di governo; ne analizza la dinamica in relazione alla crescita del PIL e al ciclo economico. Nella Parte...

Ecofin and Oecd methodology is used to reconstruct the historical evolution of public current health care expenditure for Italy and Lazio (an Italian Region). The reconstructed evolutions allow to detect what have been the per-capita expenditures per age brackets in absolute values (Euro) in...

Public administration reform as a response to the requirements of socio-economic environment change, is a process that develops both at central and local level, aiming to an institutional framework achievement, suitable for administrative and financial decentralization, under the European Union...

By providing a long run reconstruction of regional Net Fiscal Flows (NFFs) in Italy throughout the last six decades (1951-2010), this paper documents the substantial rise of fiscal transfers to Mezzogiorno (i.e. Southern Italy) from the rest of the country. Besides, three further arguments are...

The financial risks to the local government sector have recently reached a level that presents a major threat not only to local governments but to the entire national economy. This paper therefore aims to point out the significance of internal controls, the absence or insufficiency of which is a...

Economic issues will be key determinants of the outcome of the Scottish referendum on independence. Pensions are a key element of the economic case for or against independence. The costs of funding pensions in an independent Scotland would be influenced by mortality risks, the costs of borrowing...

The literature on estimating macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy requires suitable instruments to identify exogenous and unanticipated spending shocks. So far, the instrument of choice has been military build-ups. This instrument, however, largely limits the analysis to the US as few other...

el objetivo del presente estudio será medir el impacto de las rentas generadas por las industrias extractivas en los diversos territorios beneficiarios sobre la equidad interpersonal del ingreso medido a través del coeficiente de Gini. Para ello se tomará como unidad territorial...

Efficiency, economy and effectiveness: outcomes and impacts of public expenditures are main issue especially from mid eighties, when massive changes in the public sector started, influencing both allocative and X-efficiency of public expenditures. Public expenditure programmes are implemented on...