This paper extends Boadway and Keen (1993)'s work in several ways, in particular by considering two public goods, a pure public good and a good with redistributive characteristics. Under this new characterisation, it shows that is still possible to join an allocation of goods which corresponds...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse patient's mobility across Italian regions. A modified gravity model of patient migration is specified and estimated using panel observations covering mobility and other main regional quality indicators over the period 1994-1997. Despite the high level of...

This paper analyses the welfare effects of flat tax in a context of endogenous growth generated by learning-by-doing and knowledge spillovers. We present a model where a set of revenue neutral fiscal policies, each characterised by different degrees of investment deductibility and different...

Rationing has always been a feature of organ transplantation as there is a large discrepancy between donors' and recipients' numbers. In this respect, different systems for allocating scarce, donated organs are possible. The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether organ procurement...

Concurrently with the end of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, European democracies have progressively relaxed the restrictions on social mobility following the decrease in disease indexes. Did the exit speed from pandemic restrictions substantially differ across governments? This...

This paper empirically analyzes the impact of several factors on a 'conventionality index (CI)' in the specific context of the cinema exhibition sector. To our knowledge, it is the first time that a standard CI has been constructed for this purpose. Econometric analysis of the determinants of...

Although the cultural importance of circus, the economics of culture has neglected to address this topic. Two main reasons for this: first, cultural economics has (wrongly) considered circus as a minor performing arts; secondly, the difficulty to collect quantitative information on circus. This...

In Italy, public expenditure reduction is achieved through a revision of social security and health care programs. In particular, public health expenditure control has been implemented through a reform that imposes more stringent budget rules to local governments and a considerable reduction in...