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Past dominations, current institutions and the Italian regional economic performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - 2015
We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 Italian NUTS3 regions, including new measures of institutional performance calculated using data on the provision of different areas of public services. In order to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469675
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Political Competition and Economic Growth : Evidence from Italy
Alfano, Maria Rosaria - 2011
As competition in the economic market yields consumer benefits, political competition is supposed to be welfare-enhancing for citizens in terms of providing information, increasing political choice, promoting competence and good behaviour. Even so, recent literature concerning the benefits of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130852
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Social Capital and Inequality in Italy
de Blasio, Guido - 2012
negative correlation between social capital and inequality. This chapter provides some empirical findings on Italy that confirm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107382
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Assessing the Macroeconomic Impact of Structural Reforms the Case of Italy
Lusinyan, Lusine - 2013
Wide-ranging structural reforms are underway in Italy, aimed at addressing key bottlenecks in the product and labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086322
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The Effects of Organized Crime on Distressed Firms
De Martiis, Angela - 2020
emerged in the South of Italy as a response to the demand for private protection by local landlords. Using firm-level data and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838227
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The Impact of Product Market Reforms on Firm Productivity in Italy
Lanau, Sergi - 2016
. Using firm-level data from Italy during 2003-13 and OECD measures of product market regulation, we estimate the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977836
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Napoleon in Italy : A Legacy of Institutional Reform?
Federico, Giovanni - 2020
The economic consequences of French conquest and rule in Italy remain unclear. Recent GDP estimates suggest that the …-run economic and social costs of French rule in Italy outweighed any economic gains. By improving the underlying institutional … Italy after the political unification of the peninsula in 1861 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852206
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Civic Capital and Development : Italy, 1951-2001
Albanese, Giuseppe - 2014
We empirically investigate the role of civic capital (proxied by voter turnout) in Italy's economic development in the …
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The Historical Roots of Corruption and Economic Development in Italy
Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2021
We claim that a sequential mechanism linking history to development exists: first, history defines the quality of social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces,...
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Connecting to power : political connections, innovation, and firm dynamics
Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Lotti, Francesca - 2020
elections in Italy. We find that firm-level political connections are widespread, especially among large firms, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203396