L'aggiustamento fiscale 2009-2013 intrapreso dall'Italia pone forte il problema dell'equita' della sua distribuzione sui diversi comparti della Pubblica Amministrazione. In questo contributo si pone in evidenza come il saldo cosiddetto euro-compatibile possa portare ad una distribuzione...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between government spending and private consumption in the UK, for which there is scarce previous empirical evidence. We disaggregate public expenditure into three categories and search for the corresponding private consumption...

We derive analytic implicit form conditions for the qualitative analysis of government spending multipliers and the optimal level of government spending in presence of non-separability between private and public components of aggregate demand. Using the simplest neo-classical flexible price...

We study the relationship between public debt and the real long-term interest rates in the countries currently members of the European Monetary Union (EMU) to assess its long-run macroeconomic performance. We employ a panel VAR method using annual data from 1970 to 2008. We find that before the...

The need of fiscal consolidation is likely to dominate the policy agenda in the next decade; starting from statistical evidence on the conduct of fiscal policy in the EMU area over the last decade, this paper addresses the optimality of alternative fiscal consolidation strategies. In this paper, we...

Public Finances worldwide have been severely hit by the 2008-2009 Great Recession, stimulating the debate on the consequences of growing fiscal imbalances. Building on Paesani et al. (2006), this paper focuses on the USA, Germany and Italy over the 1983-2009 period and studies the effects of...

This paper presents a New Economic Geography model with distortionary taxation and endogenized transport costs. Tax revenues finance a public good, infrastructure. We show that the introduction of costly public investment in infrastructure leads to more pronounced agglomeration patterns. With...