This paper estimates Taylor rules featuring instabilities in policy parameters, switches in policy shocks' volatility, and time-varying trend inflation using post-WWII U.S. data. The model embedding the stochastic target performs better in terms of data-fit and identification of the changes in...

Economic research has inquired the role of asymmetric information between central and local governments in shaping the structure of optimal regional grants. In the mainstream literature, the theoretical setting has been characterized by some basic informational asymmetry between central...

The relationship between fiscal and financial euro area indicators and sovereign yield spreads has changed after the start of the financial crisis. Increased financial volatility has magnified the impact of fiscal conditions as drivers of sovereign risk, has widened the set of macroeconomic...

New opportunities and risks arise from the growing role of Italian local governments as public debt issuers on credit and financial markets. The paper analyzes the present institutional framework, and characterizes a reform implementing a stable and efficient "market" for the Italian local...

L’articolo si prefigge di analizzare l’evoluzione, a cavallo degli ultimi anni di crisi, dell’intervento pubblico a supporto del capitale di rischio tramite strumenti innovativi di partnership con operatori privati. L’intervento pubblico origina da fallimenti del mercato del capitale di...

We provide a first contribution to analyze how agency problems within the private consortium (i.e., imperfect bundling of private tasks) affect the performance of public–private partnerships (PPPs). When both public–private and private–private contracts are incomplete, the profit-sharing...

In a simple model of network industry, where an upstream monopolist provides an essential input for downstream service supply, we analyze the competitive settings arising in the downstream market under alternative regulatory frameworks; we combine structural (i.e. vertical integration,...

<i> Una nota quantitativa sulle prospettive della finanza provinciale </i> (di Luciano Greco) - ABSTRACT: The Note analyses through simulations on official statistical data the main effects of the Italian public budget law (i.e. legge finanziaria) for 2003 on the system of Italian provinces. These...