The holiday can be considered a good for which the tourist pays a two-part tariff (TPT). The variable part, roughly proportional to the length of stay, is charged on top of a fixed price, paid to get to the destination (typically due to travel costs). We analyse the policy implications of this...

Il lavoro analizza la relazione tra la diversa performance nella crescita economica delle regioni italiane nel periodo 1970-91, da un lato, e le caratteristiche di assetto istituzionale e di stabilità economica e sociale dall'altro. Gli indicatori per tali fenomeni, che risultano rilevanti...

This paper proposes a price index for artists based on the ratio between the average market price and the average estimated price of the paintings sold by an artist each year, adjusted for market dynamics. We apply this methodology to a group of selected artists and schools drawing from a...

In this paper we consider the effects of «multiplicative» uncertainty about the structure of the economy in the standard partisan model. An increase in the uncertainty decreases of the inflation rate pursued by the liberal policymaker, but increases the inflation rate pursued by the...