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Introduction to social choice and welfare

Suzumura, Kotaro - Banca d'Italia - 2002

Social choice theory is concerned with the evaluation of alternative methods of collective decision-making, as well as with the logical foundations of welfare economics. In turn, welfare economics is concerned with the critical scrutiny of the performance of actual and/or imaginary economic...

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The effect of tax enforcement on tax morale

Filippin, Antonio; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Viviano, Eliana - Banca d'Italia - 2013

In this paper we argue that tax enforcement is an additional contextual factor affecting tax morale, one of the most important determinants of tax compliance. By using a unique dataset that merges a representative sample of Italian households with administrative data on tax enforcement, we find...

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Tax morale and public spending inefficiency

Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - Banca d'Italia - 2009

Tax evasion is a widespread phenomenon and encouraging tax compliance is an important and much debated policy issue. Many studies have shown that tax cheating has to be attributed to a considerable extent to the tax morale of taxpayers. The aim of the present paper is to shed light on the...

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Rational ignorance and the public choice of redistribution

Larcinese, Valentino - Banca d'Italia - 2002

explanation for the poor empirical support encountered by political economy models of income redistribution. It shows that … platforms, and vote-seeking political parties should take this into account: as a consequence, redistribution will generally be …, an increase in inequality will not unambigously increase redistribution. Finally, introducing endogenous information may …

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Human capital, technical change and the welfare state

Benabou, Ronald - Banca d'Italia - 2002

I study the interactions between the distribution of human capital, technological choice, and redistributive institutions. I first ask what makes alternative social contracts such as a European-style "welfare state" and US-style "laissez-faire" sustainable, and in particular how each is affected...

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Ricerche quantitative per la politica economica 1995 ; Vol. 2

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Political selection in the skilled city

Accetturo, Antonio - Banca d'Italia - 2014

This paper studies the impact of citizensï¿½ human capital on the characteristics of elected politicians in democratic elections for the post of mayor. By using a change in the rules for Italian mayoral elections and a difference-in-differences estimator, I find that cities endowed with a...

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A tale of an unwanted outcome: transfers and local endowments of trust and cooperation

Accetturo, Antonio; Blasio, Guido de; Ricci, Lorenzo - Banca d'Italia - 2014

Transfers can do good; however, they can also result in massive failures. This paper presents a model that highlights the ambiguous nature of the impact of transfers on local endowments of social capital. It then describes an empirical investigation that illustrates that the receipt of EU...

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Metodologie di stima dellï¿½economia sommersa: unï¿½applicazione al caso italiano

Zizza, Roberta - Banca d'Italia - 2002

The paper surveys different approaches to the estimation of the underground economy. First, the focus is on the methodologies adopted by the Italian and French Statistical Institutes, respectively based on the exhaustive estimate of the labour input and on tax compliance data. Secondly, we...

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Measuring the underground economy with the currency demand approach: a reinterpretation of the methodology, with an application to Italy

Ardizzi, Guerino; Petraglia, Carmelo; Piacenza, Massimiliano - Banca d'Italia - 2012

We contribute to the debate on how to assess the size of the underground or shadow economy with a reinterpretation of the traditional Currency Demand Approach (CDA) ï¿½ la Tanzi. We introduce three main innovations. First, we take as dependent variable in the money demand equation a direct...

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