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Why have anti-corruption efforts often failed? Current thinking on corruption has largely overlooked the profound implications of its contested nature, which paradoxically makes it an effective yet highly dysfunctional 'tool of government.' As a tool of government, it helps execute policies and...
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Il confronto tra indici di infrastrutturazione basati sulla consistenza fisica degli stock, e misure derivate da stime degli stock ottenute per mezzo della tecnica dell'inventario permanente, permette di giudicare l'efficienza relativa di diverse unita' territoriali nel trasformare risorse...
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In questo lavoro si descrive la costruzione di una base di dati dello stock di capitale, sia privato che pubblico, nelle regioni italiane. Il capitale privato e' calcolato utilizzando come riferimento una ripartizione regionale dello stock aggregato per l'anno 1981. Le stime per gli altri anni,...
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We address the issue of whether public infrastructure play an important role in determining factor productivity in Italy, and we show that the evidence is mixed. Public capital is significant in explaining output in most cases. However, when the attention is drawn on the long-run properties of...
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This paper addresses the question of whether trade interdependencies are significant in explaining the international synchronization of business cycles, or "international business cycles". Using an econometric framework that combines the concept of separate cointegration (Granger an Konishi,...
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L'interesse per lo studio delle dinamiche economiche regionali è stato a lungo ostacolato dalla carenza di dati utilizzabili. In questo lavoro si descrive la costruzione di una banca dati dello stock di capitale, sia privato che pubblico, nelle regioni italiane. Entrambi sono costruiti con la...
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Standard crossnational measures of corruption draw on information collected through surveys. We propose a novel alternative measure based on objective data, namely, the difference between a measure of the physical quantities of public infrastructure and a measure of the value of public capital...
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Measuring the Internet - the size of its infrastructure, how many people use it, and their prevalent uses - is of obvious interest. However, the wealth of available quantitative information regarding the Internet so far has fallen short of satisfying the many needs that it would fulfill. We set...
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