<i> L’offerta privata di servizi ospedalieri in un sistema a finanziamento pubblico: un’analisi empirica </i> (di Gianluca Fiorentini e Cristina Ugolini) - ABSTRACT: The paper investigates the introduction of some contractual elements in the command and control mechanism used in an Italian Region...

Pay-for-Performance programs offering additional payments to GPs can be used not only to improve the quality of care but also for cost containment purposes. In this paper, we analyse the impact of removing financial incentives in primary care that were aimed at containing hospital expenditure in...

Using panel data of 19 developed economies in the period 1985-2000, we show that share issue privatization (SIP) strongly affects a fundamental aspect of financial development: market liquidity. First, we identify the channels through which a sustained SIP program boosts the liquidity of the...