Lo studio presenta un'analisi ex-post delle determinanti del comportamento fiscale di 21 paesi dell'OECD e una valutazione dell'impatto delle regole fiscali europee. È stato testato se il Trattato di Maastricht, il Patto di Stabilità e Crescita e la riforma del Patto del 2005 abbiano raggiunto...

EThis paper builds on the empirical research carried out for the “Ex post evaluation of investment projects co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) or Cohesion Fund (CF) in the period 1994-1999â€, recently finalized by the European Commission. The study evaluated...

Ex-post evaluation of infrastructure projects is attempted by international and national organisations in different ways. Qualitative case studies, relying on documentary analysis, interviews and surveys, are regularly carried out, for example, by the European Commission, the World Bank, the...

The first edition of the Report The Lighting Fixtures Market in Africa offers a comprehensive analysis of the market for lighting fixtures and lamps in 23 African countries (Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya,...

Discounting enables to express future monetary or socio-economic effects in terms of present values when inter-temporal decisions are to be taken. In the context of the cost-benefit analysis, this allows for directly comparing net benefits expressed in terms of their net present values, and,...

The present paper analyses the Multi-level Governance issue for large transport infrastructures relevant at European level. The focus is put on the activities occurring before the infrastructure implementation, which are identified as the decision making-process. This is commonly a long and...

This paper, presented at the Sixth European Conference on Evaluation of Cohesion Policy (Warsaw, 30 November-1 December 2009), discusses why there is a strong need of ex-post Cost-Benefit analysis and which conditions should be met for a proper ex-post exercise to be carried out in the framework...