<i> L’analisi dell’efficienza tecnica nel settore della sanità. Un’applicazione al caso della Lombardia </i> (di Gian Paolo Barbetta e Gilberto Turati) - ABSTRACT: The paper measures the technical efficiency in the health care industry. Our aim is twofold: on one side we have a methodological...

In this paper we attempt to identify behavioral differences between public and private not-for-profit hospitals, by exploiting the introduction of the DRG-based payment system in the Italian NHS during the second half of the 1990s. We estimate the technical efficiency of a sample of hospitals...

<i> Un’analisi sulla desiderabilità dell’intervento pubblico: il caso della gestione delle aree naturali demaniali in Valtellina e Valcamonica </i> (di Federico C. Perali, Nicola Tommasi e Angelo Zago) - ABSTRACT: Il presente lavoro si inserisce in un progetto di ricerca, commissionato...

We carried out a survey among a large group of undergraduate students of different disciplines to test whether the study of economics influences students' view on profit maximization and the market mechanism. We find that there are significant differences between economics students and the...

We investigate the determinants of TFP growth of Italian manufacturing firms. Using stochastic frontier techniques, we consider three approaches for taking into account the influence of external factors, i.e., the determinants or drivers of growth. First, in our novel approach external factors...