Italian Abstract: La gestione dei rifiuti presenta caratteristiche idonee all'applicazione di una tariffa corrispettiva, commisurata all'entità dei rifiuti prodotti, con risvolti positivi sia sotto il profilo della finanza locale sia sul piano ambientale. In Italia tale servizio è invece...

English Abstract: Waste management can be financed through user charges, in the form of fees related to the amount of waste produced. Such fees would lead to positive effects for local public finance as well as for the environment. In Italy waste management is instead financed through a local...

Italian Abstract: Questo lavoro ripercorre l'evoluzione recente della fiscalità immobiliare locale in Italia. Si utilizzano numerose fonti informative, sia a livello aggregato sia a livello individuale, per ricostruire la variazione del prelievo sull'abitazione principale nell'ultimo triennio e...

An extensive literature analyses the impact of upper-tier transfers on the spending behaviour of lower level governments. According to the median voter framework, a transfer from the centre should act as a lump sum grant to residents and thus be spent by jurisdictions in the same proportion as...

The aim of this study is to develop a new method to measure local endowments of transport infrastructures. Starting from the analytical approach of the �new economic geography�, which emphasizes the role of spatial location in determining the growth performance of an economy, it is...

We study the magnitude, the determinants and the electoral consequences of pre-electoral fiscal manipulation by incumbent politicians. To this aim, we build a dataset covering all the Italian municipalities. We document several facts. First, there is a clear political cycle in the path of...

This work analyses the relationship between the efficiency gains and the redistributive impact of the reform aimed at introducing fiscal federalism in Italy. In the recent past the reform substituted fiscal transfers once provided by central government with local taxes. By 2001 an equalization...