This paper surveys some of recent theoretical developments in the Ricardian equivalence debate.

In this paper we re-examine the contribution of the Italian tradition of public finance to the issue of differential incidence of tax and debt financing. The protracted controversy, now restated as whether government bonds are considered as net wealth, goes back to Ricardo's proposition that the...

E' stata recentemente avanzata l'ipotesi di introdurre un'addizionale IRPEF dell'1% in alternativa al previsto aumento dello 0.9% dei contributi previdenziali a carico dei lavoratori dipendenti. In tal modo si sostituirebbe un incremento di imposta generalizzato ad un aumento di contribuzione...

Mediante il modello di microsimulazione ITAXMOD dell'ISPE, si valutano gli effetti redistributivi, di progressività e di benessere sociale delle misure correttive del fiscal drag da inflazione introdotte nel periodo 1976-1991, dapprima in modo parziale e poi culminate in un meccanismo di...

Questo lavora effettua una ricognizione nel campo della microsimulazione dinamica per l'analisi delle politiche fiscali al fine di mostrarne le caratteristiche generali, i pregi e i limiti attualmente riscontrabili. Alla luce delle esperienze maturate, in particolare, negli Stati Uniti, in...

We illustrate a proposal to reform the personal income tax and the family allowance in Italy which aims at attaining a fair tax treatment of the family, laying emphasis on the redistributive processes in favour of large and poor households. Our proposal is based on a simplification of the tax...

Means-tested social assistance programs have acquired, in the last two decades, an increasing role in the majority of industrialised countries. Although the issue of whether social assistance should be targeted or universally granted remains a main subject of dispute (Harding et al. 1994; Mitchell 1995;...

The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to poor families with children are often meagre or not available at all. The paper examines the...