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The Quality of Public Services in Italy
Bripi, Francesco - 2011
This paper provides a survey of a number of studies conducted in recent years, above all at the Bank of Italy, aiming … at assessing the quality and the efficiency of public services in Italy. We consider services provided by the central … disposal, water and gas supply, and childcare). The analysis shows in general that Italy lags behind noticeably compared with …
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Italian Public Debt Since National Unification : A Reconstruction of the Time Series
Francese, Maura; Pace, Angelo - 2009
Bank of Italy website; in the future the series will be updated monthly and will remain available on the statistical …
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Technical Efficiency of Italian Public Hospitals
Schiavone, Alessandro - 2009
Since the late eighties the Italian National Health System, in particular hospital care, has undergone deep reforms. This paper evaluates the technical efficiency of Italian public hospitals in light of the main features of the hospital system at a regional level. The evaluation was carried out...
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The Italian Hospital System
Lozzi, Maurizio - 2010
Over the last decade two reforms have affected the Italian hospital system, one introducing market mechanisms, the other concerning the tools of planning and expense control assigned to the regional governments. The paper summarizes these institutional changes and describes the evolution of the...
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Natural Gas Distribution in Italy : The Implementation of the Reform and its Effects
Giacomelli, Silvia - 2015
This paper analyzes the evolution of the natural gas distribution sector in Italy from the 2000 reform with the aim of …
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Regulation and Efficiency in Italian Local Public Transport : The Regional Differences
Bentivogli, Chiara; Cullino, Roberto; Del Colle, Diana … - 2009
recent Bank of Italy survey. There are still substantial differences across Italy's regions, and the level of efficiency is …
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The Regulatory Reforms in Italian Local Public Services : An Overview and Some Lessons for the Future
Bianco, Magda; Sestito, Paolo - 2009
The paper summarizes the framework used in a research project on local public services carried out by Bank of Italy …
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How can Big Data Improve the Quality of Tourism Statistics? The Bank of Italy’s Experience in Compiling the “Travel” Item in the Balance of Payments
Catalano, Costanza; Carboni, Andrea; Doria, Claudio - 2023
In tourism statistics it is becoming more and more important to identify data sources that are more timely and cheaper than the traditional ones, such as surveys. In this paper, we investigate how mobile phone data (MPD), electronic payments data and internet search data (Google Trends) can...
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Looking Beyond the Curtain : Pass-through Capital and Round-tripping in Italy's Foreign Direct Investment
Accoto, Nadia; Oddo, Giacomo - 2023
-tripping for Italy along their geographical and sectoral dimensions, applying a simple methodology based on information on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348403
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Climate Change and Italian Agriculture : Evidence from Weather Shocks
Accetturo, Antonio; Alpino, Matteo - 2023
We estimate the effect of weather shocks on yield of corn, durum wheat, and grapevine using two-way fixed effect models on Italian province-level panel data at the annual frequency. Our estimates reveal substantial non-linearity in the effect of temperature on agricultural yields, in line with...
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